Flames Quotes - Page 38

• The Dying Christian to His Soul (1712) -Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame: Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh the pain, the bliss of dying! Stanza 1.

  Alexander Pope

  Christian, Hope, Pain

  'The Dying Christian to his Soul' (1730).

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• Everywhere he touches is fire. My whole body is burning up, the two of us becoming twin points of the same bright white flame.

  Lauren Oliver

  Fire, Two, White

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• Do not chase boys. Chasing boys is bad. Chasing boys can lead to horrible things like mansions going up into flames, hand amputations, and blindness. So have some self respect and don't let things get too far before the wedding day.

  Meg Cabot

  Boys, Self, Hands

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• She didn't want soft and gentle. She needed his rough possession, claiming her, branding her, taking her in a firestorm of heat and flame that would end the world around them, leaving them nothing but ashes, clean and fierce and forever welded together.

  Christine Feehan

  Forever, Leaving, Together

  Christine Feehan (2010). “Wild Fire”, p.118, Penguin

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• Joy was a flame in me Too steady to destroy. Lithe as a bending reed, Loving the storm that sways her

  Sara Teasdale

  Joy, Sorrow, Storm

  Sara Teasdale, William Drake (1984). “Mirror of the Heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• Spring was running in a thin green flame over the valley.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Running, Spring, Valleys

  Ellen Anderson Gholson Glasgow (1938). “Works”

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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• In tears I tossed my coin from Trevi's edge. A coin unsordid as a bond of love-- And, with the instinct of the homing dove, I gave to Rome my rendezvous and pledge. And when imperious Death Has quenched my flame of breath, Oh, let me join the faithful shades that throng that fount above.

  Robert Underwood Johnson

  Rome, Faithful, Tears

  Robert Underwood Johnson (1908). “Poems”

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• And do you agree with me, that the first condition of an artist should be to bear respect toward what is great, and to bow to it and acknowledge it and not attempt to extinguish great flames for the sake of making his own rushlight burn more brightly?

  Felix Mendelssohn

  Artist, Burning, Sake

  Letter to Wilhelm Taubert, August 27, 1831.

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• The sunset caught me, turned the brush to copper,/ set the clouds/ to one great roof of flame/ above the earth.

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth

  Sunset, Clouds, Earth

  Elizabeth Jane Coatsworth (1968). “Down Half the World”, New York : Macmillan

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• I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?

  Yves Klein

  Fire, Burning, Way

  "Yves Klein, 1928 - 1962, Selected Writings" by Yves Klein, in 1961; p. 67, 1974.

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• But on one man's soul it hath broken, / A light that doth not depart; / And his look, or a word he hath spoken, / Wrought flame in another man's heart.

  Arthur O'Shaughnessy

  Heart, Men, Light

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• I think people are intimidated by grilling .. maybe it's the flame, maybe it's the big grills, maybe they've had some bad childhood experiences .. but I think that grilling is actually the easiest technique in cooking.

  Bobby Flay

  Thinking, People, Childhood

  "Banish the bikini, bring on the grill" By Stephanie Snipes, www.cnn.com. May 31, 2004.

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• Persistent distrust is the flame of deceit. Be as good as your word or be singed by the heat.

  Wes Fesler

  Deceit, Heat, Distrust

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• Who has not seen that feeling born of flame Crimson the cheek at mention of a name? The rapturous touch of some divine surpriseFlash deep suffusion of celestial dyes: When hands clasped hands, and lips to lips were pressed, And the heart's secret was at once confessed?

  Abraham Coles

  Heart, Hands, Names

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• It is one thing to touch a flame and know it is hot, but quite another to jump into that flame and be consumed by it.

  Adyashanti

  Hot, Burning, Consumed

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• Like a moth to a flame we become helpless to the beautiful ghosts that true love sheds.

  Ryan O'Neal

  Beautiful, Ghost, Moths

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• God, on the other side of my table, composes His book whose smoke envelops me: for the flame of my candle is His pen.

  Edmond Jabes

  Book, Burning, Tables

  Edmond Jabès (1993). “The Book of Margins”, p.38, University of Chicago Press

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• The spirit of the year, like bacchant crowned, With lighted torch goes careless on his way; And soon bursts into flame the maple's spray, And vines are running fire along the ground.

  Edith M. Thomas

  Running, Autumn, Fire

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• Till o'er the wreck, emerging from the storm, Immortal Nature lifts her changeful form: Mounts from her funeral pyre on wings of flame, And soars and shines, another and the same.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Wings, Shining, Funeral

  Erasmus Darwin (1807). “The Botanic Garden: A Poem, in Two Parts: Part I. Containing The Economy of Vegetation. Part II. The Loves of the Plants”, p.117

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• Love is a flame neither timid nor tame.

  Jewel

  Love Is

  Song: Jupiter, Album: Spirit, 1998

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• The American people are slow to wrath, but when their wrath is once kindled it burns like a consuming flame.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Wrath, People, Consuming

  Theodore Roosevelt (2012). “Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents Section 2 (of 2) of Supplemental Volume: Theodore Roosevelt, Supplement”, p.18, tredition

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• I have known many gods. He who denies them is as blind as he who trusts them too deeply. I see not beyond death. Let me live while I live; let me know the rich juices of red meat and stinging wine on my palate, the hot embrace of white arms, the mad exultation of battle when the blue blades flame and crimson, and I am content. I know this: if life is an illusion, then I am no less than an illusion, and being thus, the illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I love, I slay, and am content.

  Robert E. Howard

  Real, Wine, Blue

  "Queen of the Black Coast". Short story by Robert E. Howard, 1934.

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• Ambition is the desire to go forward and improve one's condition. It is a burning flame that lights up the life of the individual and makes him see himself in another state. To be ambitious is to be great in mind and soul. To want that which is worth while and strive for it. To go on without looking back, reaching to that which gives satisfaction.

  Marcus Garvey

  Ambition, Light, Giving

  Marcus Garvey (2015). “Philosophy and Opinions of Marcus Garvey”, p.7, Ravenio Books

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• We are to regard the mind, not as a piece of iron to be laid upon the anvil and hammered into any shape, nor as a block of marble in which we are to find the statue by removing the rubbish, nor as a receptacle into which knowledge may be poured; but as a flame that is to be fed, as an active being that must be strengthened to think and to feel -- and to dare, to do, and to suffer.

  Mark Hopkins

  Block, Thinking, Iron

  Mark Hopkins (1847). “Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses”, p.235

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