Word Burst

Famous quotes containing the words word and/or burst:

    “Hardly had the glow been kindled by some good deed on your part or by some little triumph over your rivals or by a word of praise from your parents or mentors when it would begin to cool and fade leaving you in a very short time as chill and dim as before.”
    —Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

    “It was so old a ship—who knows, who knows?
    MAnd yet so beautiful, I watched in vain
    To see the mast burst open with a rose,
    And the whole deck put on its leaves again.”
    —James Elroy Flecker (1884–1919)