Extinction Burst

Famous quotes containing the words extinction and/or burst:

“The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“I wanted him to fly, burst like a missile from your throat,
burst from the spidery-mother-web,
burst from Woman herself
where too many had laid out lights
that stuck to you and left a burn
that smarted into your middle age.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)