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Letter "A" » ash
«Poetry is just the evidence of life. If your life is burning well, poetry is just the ash.»
Author: Leonard Cohen
(Novelist, Poet, Singer, Song Writer)
| About:
Poetry
| Keywords:
ash, burning, evidence
«Earth's tall sons, the cedar, ash, and pine, their parent's undecaying strength declare»
«Of all the trees that grow so fair, / Old England to adorn, / Greater are none beneath the Sun, / Than Oak and Ash and Thorn.»
«Out of the ash I rise with my red hair And eat men like air»
«He heweth him down cedars, and taketh the cypress and the oak, which he strengtheneth for himself among the trees of the forest: he planteth an ash, and the rain doth nourish it.»
«The smallest atom of truth represents some man's bitter toil and agony; for every ponderable chunk of it there is a brave truth-seeker's grave upon some lonely ash-heap and a soul roasting in hell»
Author: Henry Louis Mencken
(Critic, Journalist)
| About:
Mankind,
Truth
| Keywords:
agony, ash, atom, chunk, chunks, heap, ponderable, represents, roasting, seeker, The Seekers, toil
«The march of freedom and democracy . . . 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.»
«Ash on an old man's sleeve / Is all the ash the burnt roses leave, / Dust in the air suspended / Marks the place where a story ended.»
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