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I never see thy face but I think upon hell-fire.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Falstaff, in Henry IV, Part 1, act 3, sc. 3, l. 31.
To Bardolph, whose nose is red.)
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
(George Orwell (1903-1950), British author. "Inside the Whale," Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940).)
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each rock a word
a creek-washed stone
Granite: ingrained
with torment of fire and weight
(Gary Snyder (b. 1930), U.S. poet. Riprap (l. 19-22). . .
No Nature; New and Selected Poems [Gary Snyder]. (1992) Pantheon Books.)
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One does not set fire to a world which is already lost.
(Friedrich Dόrrenmatt (1921-1990), Swiss dramatist, novelist, essayist. Trans. by Gerhard P. Knapp (1995). Romulus the Great, act III (1956).)
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It takes two flints to make a fire.
(Louisa May Alcott (1832-1888), U.S. author. Laurie, in Little Women, pt. 2, ch. 16 (1869).)
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Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
(Leon Trotsky (1879-1940), Russian revolutionary. My Life, ch. 35 (1930).)
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That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The Cloud (l. 45-46). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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I want to hear the chanting
Around a heathen fire
Of a strange black race.
(Gwendolyn B. Bennett (1902-1981), U.S. poet. Heritage (l. 10-12). . .
Poetry of Black America, The; Anthology of the 20th Century. Arnold Adoff, ed. (1973) Harper & Row.)
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