House Burning

Famous quotes containing the words house and/or burning:

“Part way back from Bedlam
I came to my mother’s house in Gloucester,
Massachusetts. And this is how I came
to catch at her; and this is how I lost her.
I cannot forgive your suicide, my mother said.
And she never could.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”
—Joseph Brodsky (b. 1940)