Earth Caught Fire

Famous quotes containing the words earth, caught and/or fire:

    the earth falls
    So in our hearts from brilliance,
    Settles and is forgot.
    Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

    Shakespeare had no tutors but nature and genius. He caught his faults from the bad taste of his contemporaries. In an age still less civilized Shakespeare might have been wilder, but would not have been vulgar.
    Horace Walpole (1717–1797)

    And she’d had lucky eyes and a high heart,
    And wisdom that caught fire like the dried flax,
    At need, and made her beautiful and fierce,
    Sudden and laughing.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)