Ashes Quote by William Butler Yeats Download Open image “What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?” — William Butler Yeats ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Ashes Choke Fire Memories Memory
Memory is an illusion, nothing more. It is a fire that needs constant tending. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Before the flames devoured not just my body but the very memory of me, leaving behind not even a trace of ash.” — Dari A. Malaunt Copy Share Image
The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes. — Pierre Corneille Copy Share Image
“Since fire's born of fire, why should we desire To gather up its scattered ash. On the appointed day we surrendered what we were… — Yves Bonnefoy Copy Share Image
Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
“The wind forgets. It will always forget as it never stays still long enough in one place for a memory to remain. A flame… — Daniel Kemp Copy Share Image
I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to have a gravestone. I want to have all my friends burn me and then snort the ashes. I think that's… — Marilyn Manson Copy Share Image
You know how this is: if I look at the crystal moon, at the red branch of the slow autumn at my window, if… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
He said that he will never let you cry,he will always be there for you no matter how hard the situation is,that he will… — Zhra Copy Share Image
“The past is to be learned from but not lived in. We look back to claim the embers from glowing experiences but not the… — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Much can they praise the trees so straight and high, The sailing pine,the cedar proud and tall, The vine-prop elm, the poplar never dry,… — Edmund Spenser Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning, that is—is… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
I think momentum is huge in sport, especially in a series like the Ashes. — Ben Stokes Copy Share Image
