Lean Burn Spark

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

“On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody
Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body
I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft....”
—Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
The entire combustible world in one small room
As though dried straw, and if we turn about
The bare chimney is gone black out
Because the work had finished in that flare.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

“Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!”
—Muriel Spark (b. 1918)