"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

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"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

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Erma Bombeck, American Journalist

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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

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Craig Shirley, American Author

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Nancy Cartwright, American Actress

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"You know me, I've got to find some way to get a fresh fire."

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"My passions have never jumped out of the fireplace and set fire to the carpet."

"Storytelling is what lights my fire."

"Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course."

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"What is emitted from the divine, though it be only like the reflection from the fire, still has the divine reality in itself, and one might almost ask what were the fire without glow, the sun without light, or the Creator without the creature?"

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"Detachment produces a peculiar state of mind. Maybe that's the worst sentence of all, to be deprived of feeling what a human being ought to be entitled to feel."

"I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity."

"To say that its wrong to feel this way is not the point; you do feel it. All you see is a flash of fire and, depending on your altitude, you don't even see that sometimes."

"I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it to a kind of mean that enables the most dubious practitioners to claim they are poets because they think, If the kind of thing Ginsberg does is poetry, I can do that."