Lean Burn Spark

Famous quotes containing the words lean, burn and/or spark:

“You are the one
Solid the spaces lean on, envious.
You are the baby in the barn.”
—Sylvia Plath (1932–1963)

“And though thou notest from thy safe recess
Old friends burn dim, like lamps in noisome air
Love them for what they are; nor love them less,
Because to thee they are not what they were.”
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

“To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil’s soul. To Miss Mackay it is a putting in of something that is not there, and that is not what I call education, I call it intrusion.”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)