“To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Wood-Pile http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wood-pile-the/" <br class="br">1910s
Source: We Were Liars
“To warm the frozen swamp as best it could
With the slow smokeless burning of decay.”
Robert Frost (1874–1963) American poet
" The Wood-Pile http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/wood-pile-the/" <br class="br">1910s
Romain Rolland (1866–1944) French author
Jean-Christophe (1904 - 1912), Journey's End: The Burning Bush (1911)
Context: "Thou art come back to me, Thou art come back to me! O Thou, whom I had lost!... Why didst Thou abandon me?"
"To fulfil My task, that thou didst abandon."
"What task?"
"My fight."
"What need hast Thou to fight? Art Thou not master of all?"
"I am not the master."
"Art Thou not All that Is?"
"I am not all that is. I am Life fighting Nothingness. I am not Nothingness, I am the Fire which burns in the Night. I am not the Night. I am the eternal Light; I am not an eternal destiny soaring above the fight. I am free Will which struggles eternally. Struggle and burn with Me."
“I am not like
other people.
I am
burning in hell. the hell of
myself.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“I am not like other people. I am burning in hell. The hell of myself.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer
“Personally, I am dead against the burning of books.”
Augustine Birrell (1850–1933) British politician
"Bookworms"
In the Name of the Bodleian, and Other Essays
Stephen R. Donaldson book The Power that Preserves
Healer, The Power that Preserves, the third book of The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant, the Unbeliever
“I am burning myself up and will always do so.”
Jean Cocteau (1889–1963) French poet, novelist, dramatist, designer, boxing manager and filmmaker
“I am Envy… I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”
Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593) English dramatist, poet and translator