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• In Shakespeare one sentence begets the next naturally; the meaning is all inwoven. He goes on kindling like a meteor through the dark atmosphere.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Dark, Atmosphere, Goes On

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1930). “Coleridge's Shakespearean criticism”

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• O marvelous Sacrament! How can I find words to praise you! You are the life of the soul, the medicament healing our wounds, our comforter when we are overburdened, the memorial of Jesus Christ, the proof of his love, the most precious precept of his testament, our companion in the pilgrimage of life, the joy sustaining us in our exile, the burning coal kindling the fire of divine love, the instrument of grace, the pledge of eternal bliss and the treasure of Christians

  Louis of Granada

  Christian, Jesus, Healing

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• We are now in the mountains and they are in us, kindling enthusiasm, making every nerve quiver, filling every pore and cell of us. Our flesh-and-bone tabernacle seems transparent as glass to the beauty about us, as if truly an inseparable part of it, thrilling with the air and trees, streams and rocks, in the waves of the sun,-a part of all nature, neither old nor young, sick nor well, but immortal.‎

  John Muir

  Nature, Science, Glasses

  John Muir (1997). “John Muir: Nature Writings”, p.161, Library of America

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• THERE IS NO mystery to happiness. Unhappy men are alike. Some wound they suffered long ago, some wish denied, some blow to pride, some kindling spark of love put out by scorn--or worse, indifference--cleaves to them, or they to it, and so they live each day within a shroud of yesterdays. The happy man does not look back. He doesn't look ahead. He lives in the present.

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Pride, Blow, Men

  Jed Rubenfeld (2008). “The Interpretation of Murder”, p.12, Hachette UK

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• Pleasant things to hear, though hearing them from him embarrasses me. I soak up the praise but feel obliged to disparage the gift. I believe that most people have some degree of talent for something--forms, colors, words, sounds. Talent lies around in us like kindling waiting for a match, but some people, just as gifted as others, are less lucky. Fate never drops a match on them. The times are wrong, or their health is poor, or their energy low, or their obligations too many. Something.

  Wallace Stegner

  Lying, Believe, Fate

  Wallace Stegner (2007). “Crossing to Safety”, p.50, Modern Library

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  Christmas is a season for kindling the fire for hospitality in the hall, the genial flame of charity in the heart.

  Washington Irving

  Christmas, Thank You, Heart

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• She could walk through a lightning storm without being touched; grab a bolt of lightning in the palm of her hand; use the heat of lightning to start the kindling going under her medicine pot. She turned the moon into salve, the stars into swaddling cloth, and healed the wounds of every creature walking up on two or down on four.

  Gloria Naylor

  Stars, Moon, Hands

  Gloria Naylor (2017). “Mama Day: A Novel”, p.6, Open Road Media

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• Their eyes met with a singular directness of gaze. Between them a spark passed which was not afterwards to be extinguished, though neither of them knew the moment of its kindling.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Eye, Sparks, Moments

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2008). “The Shuttle: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.263, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Then I celebrated my Wall of Books. I counted the volumes on my twenty-foot-long modernist bookshelf to make sure none had been misplaced or used as kindling by my subtenant. “You’re my sacred ones,” I told the books. “No one but me still cares about you. But I’m going to keep you with me forever. And one day I’ll make you important again.” I thought about that terrible calumny of the new generation: that books smell.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Wall, Book, Smell

  Gary Shteyngart (2010). “Super Sad True Love Story”, p.45, Granta Books

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• ... a wild dissolving bliss
  Over my frame he breathed, approaching near,
  And bent his eyes of kindling tenderness
  Near mine, and on my lips impressed a lingering kiss

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Eye, Kissing, Romantic Love

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1836). “The Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Comprising Queen Mab, The Revolt of Islam, The Cenci...”, p.85

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• You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye
  Who cheer when soldier lads march by,
  Sneak home and pray you'll never know
  The hell where youth and laughter go.

  Siegfried Sassoon

  Cheer, Laughter, Home

  Siegfried Sassoon (1983). “Siegfried Sassoon's long journey: selections from the Sherston memoirs”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If Prometheus was worthy of the wrath of heaven for kindling the first fire upon earth, how ought all the gods honor the men who make it their professional business to put it out?

  John Godfrey Saxe

  Men, Fire, Wrath

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• Christmas is a kindling of new fires.

  Gladys Taber

  Christmas, Fire

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• Blessed is the match consumed in kindling flame Blessed is the flame that burns in the secret fastness of the heart

  Hannah Szenes

  Christmas, Blessed, Heart

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• 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.

  Aldo Leopold

  Dog, Moving, Heart

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• Just a little. Just the first faint breath of love... It wasn’t dramatic, like some bolt of lightning with a crack of thunder following. It was more like when flint strikes steel and the spark fades almost too fast for you to see. But still, you know it’s there, down where you can’t see, kindling.

  Patrick Rothfuss

  Lightning, Cracks, Steel

  Patrick Rothfuss (2011). “The Wise Man's Fear”, p.265, Penguin

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• If I was gay, there’d be no closet. You’d never see the closet I came out of. Why? I would have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve! Because I know, with all certainty in my mind, there’s nothing wrong with being gay and you know it! And there’s nothing wrong with being into chicks if you’re a girl. And there’s nothing wrong with being into all of it…. How awesome would it be to be bisexual? To just walk into a room and go ‘MMMM, ALRIGHT!!!!’

  Henry Rollins

  Girl, Gay, Bisexual

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• About five years ago I saw a mockingbird make a straight vertical descent from the roof gutter of a four-story building. It was an act as careless and spontaneous as the curl of a stem or the kindling of a star.

  Annie Dillard

  Stars, Years, Curls

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.104, Canongate Books

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• You watched and you saw what happened and in the accumulation of episodes you saw the pattern: Daddy ruled the roost, called the shots, made the money, made the decisions, so you signed up on his side, and fifteen years later when the women's movement came along with its incendiary manifestos telling you to avoid marriage and motherhood, it was as if somebody put a match to a pile of dry kindling.

  Anne Taylor Fleming

  Motherhood, Years, Daddy

  Anne Taylor Fleming (1995). “Motherhood Deferred: A Woman's Journey”, Fawcett

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• Cultural transformation announces itself in sputtering fits and starts, sparked here and there by minor incidents, warmed by new ideas that may smolder for decades. In many different places, at different times, the kindling is laid for the real conflagration-the one that will consume the old landmarks and alter the landscape forever.

  Marilyn Ferguson

  Change, Real, Ideas

  Marilyn Ferguson (1987). “The Aquarian Conspiracy: Personal and Social Transformation in the 1980s”, Tarcher

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• Rising glory occasions the greatest envy, as kindling fire the greatest smoke.

  Edmund Spenser

  Fire, Envy, Rising

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• Solitude delighteth well to feed on many thoughts;
  There as thou sittest peaceful, communing with fancy,
  The precious poetry of life shall gild its leaden cares;
  There, as thou walkest by the sea beneath the gentle stars,
  Many kindling seeds of good will sprout within thy soul;
  Thou shalt weep in Solitude,--thou shalt pray in Solitude.
  Thou shalt sing for joy of heart, and praise the grace of Solitude.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Stars, Heart, Sea

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• It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

  Kevin J. Anderson

  Writing, Ideas, Imagination

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• The day of my departure at length arrived. Clerval spent the last evening with us. He had endeavoured to persuade his father to permit him to accompany me and to become my fellow student, but in vain. His father was a narrow-minded trader, and saw idleness and ruin in the aspirations and ambition of his son. Henry deeply felt the misfortune of being debarred from a liberal education. He said little, but when he spoke I read in his kindling eye and in his animated glance a restrained but firm resolve not to be chained to the miserable details of commerce.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Father, Eye, Ambition

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (2005). “Frankenstein”, p.36, Prestwick House Inc

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• If I was gay, there would be no closet. You would never see the closet I came out of. Why? Because I'd have burned it for kindling by the time I was twelve... If I was gay, at this stage of the game?age 37, aging alternative icon?I'd be taking out ads.

  Henry Rollins

  Gay, Games, Icons

  "Solipsist". Book by Henry Rollins, 1998.

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