Fire Quote by Howard Nemerov Download Open image ““I have become a gate To the ruined city, dry, / Indestructible by fire.”” — Howard Nemerov ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fire
“The fire was barely fifteen minutes old. What followed was a series of fatal errors that set the fire free and doomed the city… — Jim Murphy Copy Share Image
“More things we learned from the Rising: It’s hard to gentrify a city that’s on fire.” — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“There are no more gates, only hinges clinging to the walls like broken spiders.” — J. Anderson Coats Copy Share Image
“You throw a torch into a pile of buildings, and when they are consumed, you sit among the ruins and lament the fall.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“—Kill me and burn my body. Then burn this place down on top of me. Find the other doors if there are more, and… — David Wong Copy Share Image
“They have been through the fire, and what fire does not destroy, it hardens. She has had experiences.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“I wanted to burn, to hurt, to shatter into a million tiny pieces riding violent winds of flame and ruin.” — Lia Mills Copy Share Image
“I'm standing in the middle of the greatest arson ever. A library. And I'm not going down without a fight.” — Nicki Chapelway Copy Share Image
“Maybe if we keep letting things crash and burn, everything else is bound to fall back in place.” Or maybe the fire will grow.” — Adam Silvera Copy Share Image
“You will always end up in this city. Don’t hope for things elsewhere: there is no ship for you, there is no road. As… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
“That's how I survived. Time and time again. That's my secret. I survived because I willed it to be. ... How did I survive… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
“Politics is the moat, the walls, beyond which lie the barbarians. Fail to keep them at bay, and everything burns.” — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
When Robert Frost was alive, I was known as the other new England poet, which is to be barely known at all. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
I've never read a political poem that's accomplished anything. Poetry makes things happen, but rarely what the poet wants. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
When you write it doesn't occur to you that somebody could think different from what you do. — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Both poet and painter want to reach the silence behind the language, the silence within the language. Both painter and poet want their work… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Occasionally a student writer comes up with something really beautiful and moving, and you won't know for years if it was an accident or… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Obvious enough that generalities work to protect the mind from the great outdoors; is it possible that this was in fact their first purpose? — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
When in still air and still in summertime A leaf has had enough of this, it seems To make up its mind to go;… — Howard Nemerov Copy Share Image
Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“I locked the door and turned on the water to fill the tub. I made it so hot that I had to get in… — Susan Crandall Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
Public infrastructure around the world is facing unprecedented stress, with hurricanes, cyclones, floods and forest fires all increasing in frequency and intensity. It's easy… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Eternal Trinity... mystery deep as the sea, You could give me no greater gift than the gift of Yourself. For You are a fire… — St. Catherine of Siena Copy Share Image
But I think that of all the literature that I studied, the book that did more than any other to fire my enthusiasm was… — Kwame Nkrumah Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever lost nor can be lost; the body aged, sluggish,cold… the embers left from earlier fires shall dully flame again” — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
Tonight I feel like a prisoner on fire, waiting desperately... denied, sentenced forever more. Only your love can set me free. — Michael Bolton Copy Share Image
There are different kinds of fire; there is false fire. No one knows this better than we do, but we are not such fools… — William Booth Copy Share Image
Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?],… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
War is like a fire. One man may start it, but it will spread all over. It is not about one thing in particular. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
![“Next came the Patent laws. These began in England in 1624; and, in this country, with the adoption of our constitution. Before then [these?], any man might instantly use what another had invented; so that the inventor had no special advantage from his own invention. The patent system changed this…” quote by Abraham Lincoln](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/449/abraham-lincoln-88_adoption_next-came-the-patent-laws-these-began-in_1828.jpg)
