“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods
And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
William Allingham (1824–1889) Irish man of letters and poet
Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“A shaft of fire that falls like dew,
And melts and maddens all my blood,
From out thy spirit flashes through
The burning glass of womanhood.”
The Nuts of Knowledge (1903)
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Irish writer, editor, critic, poet, and artistic painter 1867–1935Related quotes
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Source: Catch-22 (1961)
Context: Yossarian was cold, too, and shivering uncontrollably.... It was easy to read the message in his entrails. Man was matter, that was Snowden's secret. Drop him out a window and he'll fall. Set fire to him and he'll burn. Bury him and he'll rot, like other kinds of garbage. The spirit gone, man is garbage. That was Snowden's secret. Ripeness was all.
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Canto II, XVII
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“The good stars met in your horoscope,
Made you of spirit and fire and dew.”
Robert Browning (1812–1889) English poet and playwright of the Victorian Era
“Her heart was warmed and melted like the dew on roses under the morning sun.”
Apollonius of Rhodes book Argonautica
Source: Argonautica (3rd century BC), Book III. Jason and Medea, Lines 1019–1021
“Pain wanders through my bones like a lost fire;
What burns me now? Desire, desire, desire.”
Theodore Roethke book The Far Field
"The Marrow," ll. 11-12
The Far Field (1964)
