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“Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.”

Ifs Writing Wells Life Is Poetry Poet Evidence Burning Poetry Is Poetic Ashes Great Poet Great Poetry Best Poetry Poetry By Poets Best Poet

Author:Leonard Cohen

“AFC Wimbledon in the League! Talk about the ashes rising from the flames.”

Football League Flames Rising Ashes Wimbledon

Author:Stan Collymore

“When I die, sprinkle my ashes over the 80's.”

Dies Rock N Roll Ashes Sprinkles

Author:David Lee Roth

“A small grove massacred to the last ash, An oak with heart-rot, give away the show: This great society is going to smash; They cannot fool us with how fast they go, How much they cost each other and the gods. A culture is no better than its woods.”

Giving Heart Shows Lasts Culture Environment Fool Cost Environmental Woods Ashes Oaks Grove Great Society

Author:W. H. Auden

“It is the Soviet Union that runs against the tide of history . . . . [It is] the march of freedom and democracy which will leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history, as it has left other tyrannies which stifle the freedom and muzzle the self-expression of the people.”

People Self Running Politics Left President Democracy Expression Unions Tyranny March Soviet Tides Ashes Soviet Union Marxism Self Expression Muzzle Marxism Leninism

Author:Ronald Reagan

“Each of us will taste the bitter ashes of life, from sin and neglect to sorrow and disappointment. But the atonement of Christ can lift us up in beauty from our ashes on the wings of a sure promise of immortality and eternal life. He will thus lift us up, not only at the end of life, but in each day of our lives.”

Ends Christ Sin Our Lives Sorrow Promise Taste Eternal Wings Disappointment Bitter Lifts Immortality Each Day Neglect Ashes Eternal Life Atonement End Of Life

Author:Bruce C. Hafen

“Them chickens is ash and I'm lotion.”

Chickens Ashes Lotion

Author:Mariah Carey

“There's only three major elements. Air, land, which is your flesh and water, which is your blood. You're walking on a third of yourself. She's called Mother Earth. She gave birth to your ass. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, your maggot food ass going right back to her!”

Earth Mother Three Water Air Blood Land Birth Walking Elements Majors Thirds Flesh Ass Dust Ashes Mother Earth Maggots Dust To Dust

Author:Eddie Griffin

“This crazy little party girl who loves to enjoy life actually has a purpose. So, that's really the core of why I've survived so many years and I can go and I can fall down and I can get back up. Why? Because I know why I'm here. That's the question that a lot of people need to answer when they do fall is, 'Why am I here?' If you can answer that question, you'll be able to dust yourself off and shine like a phoenix out of ashes.”

“The Passion of the Christ opened up on Ash Wednesday, had a Good Friday.”

Passion Christ Ashes Friday Wednesday Good Friday Ash Wednesday Passion Of The Christ

Author:Billy Crystal

“Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.”

Stars Rising Ashes Phoenix

Author:Carl Sagan

“I want to be cremated, and I want my ashes blown in Uri Geller's eyes.”

Want Eye Ashes

Author:James Randi

“Out of these ashes beauty will rise.”

Ashes

Author:Steven Curtis Chapman

“My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.”

Firsts Children Wanted School Jobs Acting Roles Written Summer Productions Actresses Load Ashes Angela Summer School

Author:Kerry Condon

“How can I appreciate light from an aging sun shining through new configurations neither pine nor ash? How can I extol the nuturing fragrances from the spires, the spicules of a landscape not yet formed or seeded?”

Light Sun Appreciate Shining Aging Landscape Ashes Fragrance Configuration Spires Shining Through

Book:Firekeeper: new & selected poems

Source: Firekeeper: new & selected poems

“I want to love you simply, in words not spoken: tinder to the flame which transforms it to ash I want to love you simply, in signs not expressed: clouds to the rain which make them evanescent (Aku Ingin-I Want)”

Want Love You Rain Clouds Flames Ashes Tinder I Want To Love You

Author:Sapardi Djoko Damono

“Bombs fall and wipe out civilization as we know it, two things come up out of the ashes: roaches and F-150s.”

Knows Two Fall Civilization Come Up Two Things Bombs Ashes Wipe Roaches

Book:Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling

Source: Drive: The book that inspired the major film starring Ryan Gosling

“Today at Pearl Harbor, veterans are gathering to pay tribute to the young men they remember who never escaped the sunken ships. And over the years, some Pearl Harbor veterans have made a last request. They ask that their ashes be brought down and placed inside the USS Arizona. After the long lives given them, they wanted to rest besides the best men they ever knew. Such loyalty and love remain the greatest strength of the United States Navy.”

“You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that's the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That's the American story, again and again.”

Knows Stories Awakening Horrible Obsessed Rising Life And Death Tragic Cycles Ashes Again And Again Rebirth Phoenix Death And Rebirth

Author:Billy Corgan

“My dog does not care where heat comes from, but he cares that it comes, and soon. Indeed he considers my ability to make it come as something magical, for when I rise in the coal black pre-dawn and kneel by the hearth to make a fire, he pushes himself blandly between me and the kindling splits I have laid in the ashes, and I must touch a match to them by poking it between his legs. Such faith , I suppose, is the kind that moves mountains.”

Heart Kind Doe Care Moving Black Ability Fire Dog Mountain Legs Dawn Heat Splits Ashes Coal My Dog Move Mountains Kindling

Author:Aldo Leopold

“Also, what mountains of dead ashes, wreck and burnt bones, does assiduous pedantry dig up from the past time and name it History.”

Doe Past Names History Mountain Bones Ashes Wrecks Pedantry

Book:Past and Present

Source: Past and Present

“If we have chosen the position in life in which we can most of all work for mankind, no burdens can bow us down, because they are sacrifices for the benefit of all; then we shall experience no petty, limited, selfish joy, but our happiness will belong to millions, our deeds will live on quietly but perpetually at work, and over our ashes will be shed the hot tears of noble people.”

People Ifs Joy Millions Sacrifice Mankind Position Tears Benefits Hot Deeds Burden Noble Selfish Chosen Bows Shed Ashes Petty Hot Tears

Book:German socialist philosophy

Source: German socialist philosophy

“God, how pointless and empty the world is! Days filled with cheap and tarnished moments succeed each other, restless and haunted nights follow in bitter routine: the sun shines without brightness, and the moon rises without light. My heart has the taste of ashes, and my throat is tight and weary with weeping. What is a lost soul? It is one that has turned from its true path and is groping in the darkness of remembered ways—”

Source: The 1940 Under the Volcano: A Critical Edition

“Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?”

Long Fire Cold Letting Go Ashes

Book:Silence: Lectures and Writings

Source: Silence: Lectures and Writings

“If America is to be run by the people, it is the people who must think. And we do not need to put on sackcloth and ashes to think. Nor should our minds work like a sundial which records only sunshine. Our thinking must square against some lessons of history, some principles of government and morals, if we would preserve the rights and dignity of men to which this nation is dedicated.”

Source: Addresses Upon the American Road, 1948-1950

“Our passions are true phoenixes; as the old burn out the new straight rise up from the ashes.”

Passion Ashes Phoenix Burn Out Love Passion

Book:Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Works of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Illustrated)

“Here halt, I pray you, make a little stay. O wayfarer, to read what I have writ, And know by my fate what thy fate shall be. What thou art now, so shall thou be. The world's delight I followed with a heart Unsatisfied: ashes am I, and dust.”

Knows World Heart Littles Art Fate Praying Delight Dust Ashes I Pray Halt Unsatisfied

Author:Alcuin

“And the headbonny ash that sits over the burn. What would the world be, once bereft Of wet and of wildness? Let them be left, O Let them be left, wildness and wet: Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet.”

World Long Left Nature Wilderness Weed Wet Ashes Wildness Hopkins Bereft Rivers And Water Inspiring Nature

Author:Gerard Manley Hopkins

“The Lord withdraws when He is denied, and what is taken by the undeserving does not avail them unto salvation, since the saving grace is turned into ashes and holiness departs.”

Doe Lord Taken Grace Salvation Saving Holiness Denied Ashes Sacraments Saving Grace Undeserving

Author:Cyprian

“The Greatest Happiness is to scatter your enemy and drive him before you. To see his cities reduced to ashes. To see those who love him shrouded and in tears. And to gather to your bosom his wives and daughters.”

Happiness Cities Enemy Wife Tears Daughter Ashes Bosoms Wife And Daughter

Author:Genghis Khan

“Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.”

Passion Ashes Phoenix Burnt Out

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“...Shorty's laugh was cold-blooded as he spoke so foul, Only twelve tryin to tell me that he liked my style. Then I rose, wiping the blunt's ash from my clothes, Then froze, only to blow the herb smoke through my nose.”

Laughing Style Cold Clothes Rose Blow Hip Hop Rap Smoke Noses Spokes Twelve Ashes Foul Herbs Blunt Cold Blooded

Author:Nas

“One thing is certain: When the time has come, nothing which is man-made will subsist. One day, all human accomplishments will be reduced to a pile of ashes. But every single child to whom a has given birth will live forever, for he has been given an immortal soul made to God's image and likeness.”

Men Humans Children Has Beens Made Soul Certain Given Forever One Thing Birth One Day Accomplishment Immortal Ashes Live Forever Pro Life Immortal Soul Single Child

Book:The Privilege of Being a Woman

Source: The Privilege of Being a Woman

“We are recipients of God's choicest blessings. We enjoy an abundance of material things beyond that enjoyed by any other nation in the history of the world; but unless we keep alive a realization that all these blessings come from God and are a part of our great spiritual heritage, they may crumble as ashes in our hands. "In nothing doth man offend God, or against none is his wrath kindled, save those who confess not his hand in all things and obey not his commandments."”

“The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.”

Life Heart Body Pain Spirit Fall Speak Color Recognition Heat Rising Ashes Pits Temperature Coldness Arousal

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“An old Arabian fable tells of a prince imprisoned in a castle which had thirteen windows. Twelve of these windows overlooked lovely scenes, while the thirteenth looked down on the black ash heaps of the city. Ignoring the twelve windows, the prince always looked out through the thirteenth. It is so often true that whether a person carries with him an atmosphere of gloom and depression or one of confidence and courage depends on his individual outlook.”

“The fire which seems extinguished often slumbers beneath the ashes.”

Seems Fire Ashes Slumber

Author:Pierre Corneille

“Passion has overthrown tyrants and freed prisoners and slaves. Passion has brought justice where there was savagery. Passion has created freedom where there was nothing but fear. Passion has helped souls rise from the ashes of their horrible lives and build something better, stronger, more beautiful.”

Soul Beautiful Passion Justice Stronger Slave Horrible Prisoner Tyrants Ashes Something Better Harry Dresden Savagery Horrible Life

Book:The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

Source: The Dresden Files Collection 7-12

“Burn worldly love, rub the ashes and make ink of it, make the heart the pen, the intellect the writer, write that which has no end or limit.”

Writing Heart Ends Limits Intellect Pens Ashes Worldly Ink

Author:Guru Nanak

“Take from the altars of the past the fire - not the ashes.”

Past History Fire Ashes Altars

Author:Jean Jaures

“Tradition does not mean to look after the ash, but to keep the flame alive.”

Looks Mean Doe Alive Tradition Flames Ashes

Author:Jean Jaures

“We'll all be the first to hold up our hands and take it on the chin [can't all be the first Ash!]”

Firsts Hands Ashes Chins

Author:Ashley Giles

“All people seem to want to talk about is the current Ashes series, and whether England are going to reverse the trend of recent series.”

People Want Seems England Series Currents Trends Ashes Reverse

Author:Ian Botham

“There is nothing more exciting in sport when the top two countries in the world are battling for the Ashes”

World Two Country Sports Exciting Ashes Squash Two Countries

Author:Ian Botham

“Tradition is the spreading of fire and not the veneration of ashes.”

Fire Tradition Ashes Veneration

Author:Gustav Mahler

“For the human soul is virtually indestructible, and its ability to rise from the ashes remains as long as the body draws breath.”

Humans Long Soul Body Ability Draws Breaths Remains Ashes Human Soul Indestructible

Book:For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

Source: For Your Own Good: Hidden Cruelty in Child-Rearing and the Roots of Violence

“Every day there comes a moment when a person lays his hands in his lap and all his busyness collapses like ashes. The work accomplished is, from the soul's point of view, entirely imaginary.”

Persons Soul Moments Hands Views Lays Point Of View Accomplished Collapse Imaginary Ashes Lap

Book:Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

Source: Precision and Soul: Essays and Addresses

“Even the darkest moments of the liturgy are filled with joy, and Ash Wednesday, the beginning of the lenten fast, is a day of happiness, a Christian feast.”

Moments Christian Joy Filled Ashes Wednesday Liturgy Lenten Ash Wednesday

Book:Seasons of Celebration

Source: Seasons of Celebration

“Nevertheless, the liturgy of Ash Wednesday is not focussed on the sinfulness of the penitent but on the mercy of God. The question of sinfulness is raised precisely because this is a day of mercy, and the just do not need a savior.”

Needs Mercy Raised Savior Ashes Nevertheless Wednesday Liturgy Sinfulness Mercy Of God Ash Wednesday

Book:Meditations on liturgy

Source: Meditations on liturgy

“My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.”

Process Creative Produce Prove Property Deeds Preparation Titles Creative Process Ashes Definite Leftovers Monochrome

Author:Yves Klein

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