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Quotes About Fires

Distances" Swifts turn in the heights of the air; higher still turn the invisible stars. When day withdraws to the ends of the earth their fires shine on a dark expanse of sand. We live in a world of motion and distance. The heart flies from tree to bird, from bird to distant star, from star to love; and love grows in the quiet house, turning and working, servant of thought, a lamp held in one hand.
~ Philippe Jaccottet
Love is no respecter of age or practicality Neither morality: unabashed She enters where she will Unheeding that her immortal fires Burn up human hearts...
~ Phillip Pulfrey
I'm the hidden bug in the tall weeds, lighting fires no one can see.
~ Ada Limón
It was like discovering that your innermost fires and terrors, the things you believed no one else could fathom, were in fact the basis of a recognized philosophy. Some part of you felt intimately invaded, threatened; some other part fell to its knees and sobbed in gratitude that it was no longer alone.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
You darkness, that I come from, I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world.
~ Rainer Maria Rilke
we both know the cardinal rule when it comes to assassinations. It's not important who fires the shot. It's who pays for the bullet.
~ Daniel Silva
The National Guard has served America as both a wartime force and the first military responders in times of domestic crisis. Hundreds of times each year, the nation's governors call upon their Guard troops to respond to fires, floods, hurricanes and other natural disasters.
~ Russel Honore
Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.
~ Cathy McMorris Rodgers
Our hearts flew up to heaven,, and all the soot and flying dust of burning cane vanished in the smoke fires of hell while ours ascended skywards, washed in the blood of the lamb.
~ Ramabai Espinet
I got tiger blood, man. My brain fires in a way that is - I don't know, maybe not from this particular terrestrial realm.
~ Charlie Sheen
But man must light for man The fires no other can, And find in his own eye Where the strange crossroads lie.
~ David McCord
Sing a song of seasons; something bright in all, flowers in the summer, fires in the fall.
~ Robert Louis Stevenson
E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.
~ Thomas Gray
Nature, through all her works, in great degree, Borrows a blessing from variety. Music itself her needful aid requires To rouse the soul, and wake our dying fires.
~ Charles Churchill
Poetry is a life-cherishing force. For poems are not words, after all, but fires for the cold, ropes let down to the lost, something as necessary as bread in the pockets of the hungry.
~ Mary Oliver, A Poetry Handbook
Fiery the Angels rose, and as they rose deep thunder roll'd Around their shores: indignant burning with the fires of Orc.
~ William Blake
The sad and solemn night Hath yet her multitude of cheerful fires.
~ William Cullen Bryant
Love lights more fires than hate extinguishes And men grow better as the world grows old.
~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
My joy burns brighter when I tend to the glowing hearth fires of home.
~ Thomas Kinkade
SLEEPING Here, we are one geography: every part of us inked on a map where, across all the blue waters, continents' edges inexplicably match. I move closer to you in the dark, feel the slow heat that embers you deeper into the night. Where all fires descend a few hours into their own slow-dreaming hearts. Where the ravine hides in its own steepness no matter how long, how fiercely we love.
~ Jane Hirshfield
I've lived to bury my desires, And see my dreams corrode with rust; Now all that's left are fruitless fires That burn my empty heart to dust.
~ Aleksandr Puskin
And I see the danger in either case will arise principally from the conduct and views of two very unprincipled parties in the United States-two fires, between which the honest and substantial people have long found themselves situated.
~ Richard Henry Lee
The man is mollified. The systematic juices leave off bubbling, the fires sink, the coals are scattered. But the anger is still there, apart. Energy is never lost; a primal law. -Mad House
~ Richard Matheson
All around her, the forest reels from the hottest, driest year since the beginning of record-keeping. Yet another freak, once-in-a-century event, almost annual these days. Fires are popping up all over the park. Code Red every third day.
~ Richard Powers