“I am ashes where once I was fire…”
George Gordon Byron (1788–1824) English poet and a leading figure in the Romantic movement
Source: Selected Poems
“Fires that shook me once, but now to silent ashes fall'n away.
Cold upon the dead volcano sleeps the gleam of dying day.”
Stanza 21
Locksley Hall Sixty Years After (1886)
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And day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
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Autumnal Sonnet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
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Though dead, though slain, though burnt to ashes cold.”
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Risorgero nemico ognor piu crudo,
Cenere anco sepolto, e spirto ignudo!
Canto IX, stanza 99 (tr. Fairfax)
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William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer
Lectures on the English Poets http://www.gutenberg.org/files/16209/16209.txt (1818), Lecture VIII, "On the Living Poets"
“In one room, silently, lover looks upon lover,
And thinks the air is fire.”
Conrad Aiken (1889–1973) American novelist and poet
The House of Dust (1916 - 1917)
“We are sleeping on a volcano… A wind of revolution blows, the storm is on the horizon.”
Alexis De Tocqueville (1805–1859) French political thinker and historian
Original text: Nous dormons sur un volcan… Ne voyez-vous pas que la terre commence à trembler. Le vent de la révolte souffle, la tempête est à l’horizon.
Speaking in the Chamber of Deputies just prior to to outbreak of revolution in Europe (1848).
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