Burns

Famous quotes containing the word burns:

“What’s done we partly may compute,
But know not what’s resisted.”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“Let them cant about decorum Who have characters to lose!”
—Robert Burns (1759–1796)

“Unmeasured power, incredible passion, enormous craft: no thought
apparent but burns darkly
Smothered with its own smoke in the human brain-vault: no thought
outside; a certain measure in phenomena:
The fountains of the boiling stars, the flowers on the foreland, the
ever-returning roses of dawn.”
—Robinson Jeffers (1887–1962)