Quotations About / On: FIRE

  • 41.
    Their beauty sets them aside
    from other men and from women
    unless a woman has that cold fire in her
    called poet....
    (Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Elves.")
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  • 42.
    One may speak about anything on earth with fire, with enthusiasm, with ecstasy, but one only speaks about oneself with avidity.
    (Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), Russian author. Aleksei Petrovich, "A Correspondence," letter, May 2, 1840 (1856).)
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  • 43.
    his lips meet mine, and a flood
    Of sweet fire sweeps across me, so I drown
    Against him, die and find death good.
    (D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885-1930), British poet. Love on the Farm (l. 66-68). . . The Complete Poems [D. H. Lawrence]. Vivian de Sola Pinto and Warren Roberts, eds. (1993) Penguin Books.)
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  • 44.
    Night sank: like flakes of silver fire
    The stars in one great shower came down;
    (John Davidson (1857-1909), Scottish poet. In Romney Marsh (l. 21-22). OxBTC. Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century English Verse, The. Philip Larkin, ed. (1973) Oxford University Press.)
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  • 45.
    The day of fire is coming, the thrush
    will fly ablaze like a little sky rocket....
    (Anne Sexton (1928-1974), U.S. poet. "The Fury of Earth.")
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  • 46.
    The child says nothing but what is heard by the fire.
    (Unknown (20th century).)
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  • 47.
    My arising prodigal
    Sun the father his quiver full of the infants of pure fire ...
    (Dylan Thomas (1914-1953), Welsh poet. "Holy Spring.")
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  • 48.
    An old man with his feet before the fire,
    In robes of green, in garments of adieu.
    (Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), U.S. poet. The Far Field (l. 84-85). . . Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Allison and others, eds. (3d ed., 1983) W. W. Norton & Company.)
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  • 49.
    These violent delights have violent ends,
    And in their triumph die, like fire and powder,
    Which as they kiss consume.
    (William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Friar Lawrence, in Romeo and Juliet, act 2, sc. 6, l. 9-11. On Romeo and Juliet as they rush into marriage; the Friar's words seem to anticipate their death.)
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  • 50.
    My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet.
    (Mason Cooley (b. 1927), U.S. aphorist. City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York (1994).)
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