Famous quotes containing the words fire, giant and/or king:
“When did your sparkle turn to fire and your warmth become desire?”
—Alan Jay Lerner (19181986)
“The point of the dragonflys terrible lip, the giant water bug, birdsong, or the beautiful dazzle and flash of sunlighted minnows, is not that it all fits together like clockwork--for it doesnt ... but that it all flows so freely wild, like the creek, that it all surges in such a free, finged tangle. Freedom is the worlds water and weather, the worlds nourishment freely given, its soil and sap: and the creator loves pizzazz.”
—Annie Dillard (b. 1945)
“War is a fevered god
who takes alike
maiden and king and clod....”
—Hilda Doolittle (18861961)