Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

    But pleasures are like poppies spread,
    You seize the flow’r, its bloom is shed;
    Or like the snow falls in the river,
    A moment white—then melts for ever;
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)

    It burns the thing
    inside it. And that thing
    screams.
    Imamu Amiri Baraka (b. 1934)

    The time flew by, wi’ tentless heed;
    Till, ‘tween the late and early,
    Wi’ sma’ persuasion she agreed
    To see me thro’ the barley.
    —Robert Burns (1759–1796)