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fire age youth
A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. Charles Caleb Colton
fire liberty purpose
The French revolution was a .eune invented and constructed for the purpose of manufacturing liberty; but it had neither lever cogs, nor adjusting powers, and the consequences were that it worked so rapidly that it destroyed its own inventors, and set itself on fire.
fire forever steel
In most quarrels there is a fault on both sides. A quarrel may be compared to a spark, which cannot be produced without a flint, as well as steel. Either of them may hammer on wood forever; no fire will follow.
fire wish mastery
And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire. Charles Dickens
fire wish mastery
All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.
fire feelings words-of-wisdom
I had neither the good sense nor the good feeling to know that this was all my fault, and that if I had been easier with Joe, Joe would have been easier with me. I felt impatient of him and out of temper with him; in which condition he heaped coals of fire on my head.
fire mark malice
Malice can always find a mark to shoot at, and a pretence to fire. Charles Simmons
fire music-is stills
Making music is still what keeps a fire going on in me. Alan Jackson
fire should-have skulls
After the trial, I watched as another female pathologist collected maggots from a spinal column found in the desert. There was a decomposed head, too, and before leaving work she planned to simmer it and study the exposed cranium for contusions. I was asked to pass this information along to the chief medical examiner, and, looking back, I perhaps should have chosen my words more carefully. 'Fire up the kettle,' I told him. 'Ol'-fashioned skull boil at five p.m. David Sedaris
poetry should
Why then we should drop into poetry.
poetry mind body
Poetry is the connecting link between body and mind. Camille Paglia
poetry wish way
Poetry confronts in the most clear-eyed way just those emotions which consciousness wishes to slide by. C. K. Williams
poetry essentials needs
Poetry never loses its appeal. Sometimes its audience wanes and sometimes it swells like a wave. But the essential mystery of being human is always going to engage and compel us. We're involved in a mystery. Poetry uses words to put us in touch with that mystery. We're always going to need it. Edward Hirsch
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. Edith Sitwell
poetry humanity
We can't separate our humanity from our poetry ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
poetry silence never-quit
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them. Charles Simic
poetry
Dismissals of poetry are nothing new. It's easy to dismiss poetry if one has not read much of it. Natasha Trethewey
poetry teach
poetry had everything to teach me about life. Diane Ackerman
poetry-is happens
Poetry is what happens when nothing else can. Charles Bukowski
poetry-is knows dividends
Poetry is a dividend from what you know and what you are. Czeslaw Milosz
poetry-is touchstones feigning
The truest poetry is the most feigning. William Shakespeare
poetry-is
... poetry is fired by love ... Erica Jong
poetry-is
The poetry is myself. Gwendolyn Brooks
poetry-is translations
Poetry is what is gained in translation. Joseph Brodsky
poetry-is abstraction
Poetry is an abstraction bloodied. Wallace Stevens
poetry-is
All poetry is experimental poetry.