Burning Quote by Theodore Roethke

“How divine the coming of the morning,—the coming of the Sun,—exorcising the shadowy terrors of the night with infinite restoration of color! I look…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“The glee of it. The ecstasy of It. I can't speak about this It because I know no word. It is just there, It…

— Peter Matthiessen

“The Fire Bug flared up at that. “You want to know what bugs me?” it said indignantly. “Nobodaddy’s friendly about fire. Oh, it’s fine…

— Salman Rushdie

“It crouches near the center of creation. There is no night where it waits. Only the riddle of which terrible dream will set it…

— Harlan Ellison

“Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist on the…

— Nenia Campbell

“A crimson fire that vanquishes the stars;A pungent odor from the dusty sage;A sudden stirring of the huddled herds;A breaking of the distant table-landsThrough…

— Willa Cather

A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot…

— Roger Zelazny

“It was an unusual sunset. Having sat behind opaque drapery all day, I had not realized that a storm was pushing in and that…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature.…

— Thomas Hardy

A mud-stained sunlight began to splatter the sodden fields, and the hateful, nasal world of birds began to come to life. It seemed to…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Ars Poetica II" I find, after all these years, I am a believer— I believe what the thunder and lightning have to say; I…

— Charles Wright

Now in darkness, world stops turning, as you hear the bodies burning.

— Black Sabbath