“300. He will burne his house to warme his hands.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“300. He will burne his house to warme his hands.”
George Herbert (1593–1633) Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest
Jacula Prudentum (1651)
“When Jack Burns needed to hold his mother's hand, his fingers could see in the dark.”
John Irving book Until I Find You
Source: Until I Find You
Kabir (1440–1518) Indian mystic poet
The Bijak of Kabir (1983;2002) as translated by Linda Hess and Shukdeo Singh.
Bijak
“It still felt like hauling buckets from a well of memory with a rope that burned his hands.”
Lois McMaster Bujold book The Hallowed Hunt
Source: World of the Five Gods series, The Hallowed Hunt (2005), Chapter 2 (p. 35)
Dante Alighieri book Vita Nuova
ne le braccia avea
madonna involta in un drappo dormendo.
Poi la svegliava, e d'esto core ardendo
lei paventosa umilmente pascea:
appresso gir lo ne vedea piangendo.
Source: La Vita Nuova (1293), Chapter I, First Sonnet (tr. Mark Musa)
Seneca the Younger book Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium (Moral Letters to Lucilius), Letter XXIV: On despising death
William Empson (1906–1984) English literary critic and poet
"Villanelle" (1928), line 1; cited from John Haffenden (ed.) The Complete Poems (London: Allen Lane, 2000) p. 33.
The Complete Poems