Flickering Flame

Famous quotes containing the words flickering and/or flame:

    “The trouble is that no devastating or redeeming fires have ever burnt in my life.... My life began by flickering out.”
    —Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891)

    “At Delphi I prayed
    to Apollo
    that he maintain in me
    the flame of the poem
    and I drank of the brackish
    spring there....”
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)