Famous quotes containing the words set and/or fire:
“I think it better that in times like these
A poets mouth be silent, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right.”
—William Butler Yeats (18651939)
“For we are not pans and barrows, nor even porters of the fire and torch-bearers, but children of the fire, made of it, and only the same divinity transmuted, and at two or three removes, when we know least about it.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (18031882)