Famous quotes containing the words fire, giant and/or king:
“Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside youlike music to the musician or Marxism to the Communistor else it is nothing, an empty formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (18961940)
“In frames as large as rooms that face all ways
And block the ends of streets with giant loaves,
Screen graves with custard, cover slums with praise
Of motor-oil and cuts of salmon, shine
Perpetually these sharply-pictured groves
Of how life should be.”
—Philip Larkin (19221986)
“Hes always been king of his world, but well teach him fear.... Why in a few months itll be up in lights on Broadway: Kong, the Eighth Wonder of the World.”
—James Creelman. Merian C. Cooper. Carl Denham (Robert Armstrong)