"Time flames like a paraffin stove / and……" — Irving Layton
"Time flames like a paraffin stove / and what burns are the minutes I live."
More Burns Quotes
- Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach… — Richard Bach
- Love cannot endure indifference. It needs to be wanted. Like a lamp, it needs to be fed out of the… — Henry Ward Beecher
- There is a tragic clash between Truth and the world. Pure undistorted truth burns up the world. — Nikolai Berdyaev
- The platform of an Ethical Society is itself the altar; the address must be the fire that burns thereon. — Felix Adler
- The difference between a violin and a viola is that a viola burns longer. — Victor Borge
- The earth has grown old with its burden of care, but at Christmas it always is young, the heart of… — Phillips Brooks
- Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woods and day by day the dead leaves fall and melt. — William Allingham
- Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean. — Maya Angelou
- There is not one state truly alive if it is not as if a cauldron burns and boils in its… — Sukarno
- It is nevertheless a game of considerable passion, either of the explosive type, or that which burns inwardly and sears… — Bobby Jones
- Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the… — Jean Batten
- Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of… — Pablo Neruda