1. Home »
  2. American Poets »
  3. Patience Worth

Who Said That Love Was Fire?

by Patience Worth

Patience Worth

Who said that love was fire?
I know that love is ash.
It is the thing which remains
When the fire is spent,
The holy essence of experience.




Quotes of the Day

Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.
• Alfred Lord Tennyson


Poems of the Day
  • Anne Sexton
    The Earth
    by Anne Sexton
    God loafs around heaven, without a shape but He would like to smoke His cigar or bite His fingernails and so forth. God owns heaven but He craves the earth, the earth with its little sleepy caves,