Flare

Famous quotes containing the word flare:

    Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
    Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
    The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
    They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
    And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?
    Who’s sorry for a gnat ... or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)

    still I’m ready to believe perhaps
    some lives
    tremble and flare up there, four blocks away ...
    Denise Levertov (b. 1923)