Flames Quotes - Page 25

• 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

  Prayer, Spring, Poetry

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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• one pale woman all alone,
  The daylight kissing her wan hair,
  Loitered beneath the gas lamps' flare,
  With lips of flame and heart of stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Women, Heart, Kissing

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems and poems in prose”, p.153, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• If you would conquer Love, he must be fought
  At his first onslaught; sprinkle but a drop
  Of water, the new-kindled flame expires.

  Ovid

  Love, Water, Sprinkles

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• Wind feeds the fire, and wind extinguishes:
  The flames are nourished by a gentle breeze,
  Yet, if it stronger grows, they sink and die.

  Ovid

  Love, Fire, Wind

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• The applause and the favour of our fellow-men
  Fan even a spark of genius to a flame.

  Ovid

  Appreciation, Men, Fans

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• As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
  So did I weave myself into the sense.

  George Herbert

  Wind, Poetry, Poet

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.103

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• True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
  But borrowed thence to light us thither.
  Beauty and beauteous words should go together.

  George Herbert

  Beauty, Light, Together

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.186

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• Last night I fled until I came
  To streets where leaking casements dripped
  Stale lamplight from the corpse of flame;
  A nervous window bled.

  Allen Tate

  Night, Lasts, Nervous

  Allen Tate (2014). “Collected Poems, 1919-1976”, p.207, Macmillan

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• Ibsen is like this room where we are sitting, with all the tables and chairs. Do I care whether you have twenty or twenty-five links on your chain? Hedda Gabler, Nora and the rest: it is not that I want! I want Rome and the Coliseum, the Acropolis, Athens; I want beauty, and the flame of life.

  Eleanora Duse

  Beauty, Rome, Tables And Chairs

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• Love is a blazing, crackling, green-wood flame, as much smoke as flame; friendship, married friendship particularly, is a steady,intense, comfortable fire. Love, in courtship, is friendship in hope; in matrimony, friendship upon proof.

  Samuel Richardson

  Friendship, Love Is, Fire

  Samuel Richardson (1804). “The Correspondence of Samuel Richardson ...: Selected from the Original Manuscripts, Bequeathed by Him to His Family, to which are Prefixed, a Biographical Account of that Author, and Observations on His Writings”, p.188

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• By dying I wanted to maintain my honor, and hide a flame so black from the daylight!

  Jean Racine

  Suicide, Passion, Black

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• I am haunted by interrupted acts,
  introspective as a leper, enchanted
  by a repulsive clew,
  a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs.
  Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?

  Muriel Rukeyser

  Light, Movement, Enchanted

  Muriel Rukeyser (1994). “Out of Silence: Selected Poems”, p.54, Northwestern University Press

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• A world is in flames, and you are cracking silly jokes.

  Friedrich Durrenmatt

  War, Silly, World

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• Whilst all the land was ringed with bristling arms
  And flames laid waste our world,
  All that was left me was a little garden
  And thou within it, my beloved, my comrade.

  Stefan Zweig

  War, Garden, Our World

  Stefan Zweig, Friderike Maria Burger Winternitz Zweig (1954). “Stefan and Friderike Zweig: their correspondence, 1912-1942”

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• Then amongst flowers and springs,
  Making delightful sport,
  Sat lovers without conflict, without flame

  Torquato Tasso

  Sports, Peace, Spring

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• Why I love the ancients so much? Aside from everything else, when I read them, the entire past between them and me unfolds at thesame time. The hearts of how many heroes and poets may have been set on fire by Plutarch's biographies which now inspire me with their own and with borrowed flames!

  Franz Grillparzer

  Reading, Hero, Heart

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• You will not see
  that desire begets
  love,
  until it all flames
  into one concise
  and metallic blaze.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Desire, Metallic, Begets

  Hilda Doolittle (1983). “Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks”

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• It is so easy to take the violet flame and to use it that I am certain that once you begin you will recognize that the violet flame and the angels of the violet flame are the servants of the sons and daughters of God and the children of the Light, that the violet flame joyously serves you and acts to cleanse your entire being so that, as Jesus said, your whole body can be full of light.

  Elizabeth Clare Prophet

  Daughter, Jesus, Children

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• Some police forces would believe anything. Not the Metropolitan police, though. The Met was the hardest, most cynically pragmatic, most stubbornly down-to-earth police force in Britain. It would take a lot to faze a copper from the Met. It would take, for example, a huge, battered car that was nothing more nor less than a fireball, a blazing, roaring, twisted metal lemon from Hell, driven by a grinning lunatic in sunglasses, sitting amid the flames, trailing thick black smoke, coming straight at them through the lashing rain and wind at eighty miles an hour.That would do it every time.

  Terry Pratchett

  Rain, Believe, Wind

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• Food over flame burns, food over heat cooks

  Alfred the Great

  Heat, Cooks

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• Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated “toy” continues to bring out the visionary child in filmmakers and viewers alike, and no one has kept the PXL flame burning longer or brighter than Gerry.

  Michael Almereyda

  Children, Humble, Seductive

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• Now, I know Obama was trying to take the long view, but talking about solar energy in the middle of the oil spill is like watching your house engulfed in flames and saying, 'We really should change the curtains.'

  Craig Ferguson

  Views, Talking, Oil

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• O sweet everlasting Voices, be still;
  Go to the guards of the heavenly fold
  And bid them wander obeying your will,
  Flame under flame, till Time be no more.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Voice, Longing

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
  We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
  And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
  Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Twilight, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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• A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

  William Butler Yeats

  Spiritual, Expression, Essence

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.88, Simon and Schuster

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