Fire Whitman

Famous quotes containing the words fire and/or whitman:

    Our hearts you see not; they are pitiful;
    And pity to the general wrong of Rome—
    As fire drives out fire, so pity pity—
    Hath done this deed on Caesar.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    This face is a dog’s snout sniffing for garbage,
    Snakes nest in that mouth, I hear the sibilant threat.
    —Walt Whitman (1819–1892)