Burning House

Famous quotes containing the words burning and/or house:

“The rushing Pequod, freighted with savages, laden with fire, and burning a corpse, and plunging into that blackness of darkness, seemed the material counterpart of her monomaniac commander’s soul.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)

“Work has to be done.
Postmen like doctors go from house to house.”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1986)