#burning

For that was love, wasnt it--to burn bright in someone else's eyes? ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#cassandra-clare #clockwork-angel #clockwork-prince #jem-carstairs #love

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#burning #crimes #reading #than #them

God, for example, appealed to me as a beardless man wearing a quilted silk cap; holiness was something burning, forbidding, something connected with fire while a day had the form of an oblong box. ↗

— Abraham Cahan

#box #burning #cap #connected #day

Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#burning #evidence #just #life #well

Every few thousand years some shepard inhales smoke from a burning bush and has a vision or eats moldy rye bread in a cave and sees God. ↗

— Kerry Thornley

#burning #bush #cave #eats #every

It was with 9/11 that I came to fully appreciate and embrace NPR's irreplaceability as a sanity preserver, its unique virtues as first responder on the burning scene. ↗

— James Wolcott

#burning #came #embrace #first #fully

I carry a torch in one hand And a bucket of water in the other: With these things I am going to set fire to Heaven And put out the flames of Hell So that voyagers to God can rip the veils And see the real goal. ↗

— Rābiʻah al-ʻAdawīyah

#lennon #goal-setting

I can't tell you where a poem comes from, what it is, or what it is for: nor can any other man. The reason I can't tell you is that the purpose of a poem is to go past telling, to be recognised by burning. ↗

— A. R. Ammons

#burning #comes #go #i #man

By burning Luther's books you may rid your bookshelves of him, but you will not rid men's minds of him. ↗

— Desiderius Erasmus

#bookshelves #burning #him #luther #may

What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#books #burned #burning #content #making