"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."

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"The generous Critic fann'd the Poet's fire, And taught the world with reason to admire."

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"We can no longer tolerate losing one more innocent child or putting one more firefighter at risk in a fire that could have been prevented at the cost of pennies by making a couple simple changes to the construction of a cigarette."

Ed Markey, American Politician

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"O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements."

Harry Houdini, Hungarian Entertainer

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"In all feats of fire-eating it should be noted that the head is thrown well back, so that the flame may pass out of the open mouth instead of up into the roof, as it would if the head were held naturally."

Harry Houdini, Hungarian Entertainer

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"I've seen public opinion shift like the wind and put out the very fire it lighted."

Rachel Field, American Novelist

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"The Irish seem to have more fire about them than the Scots."

Sean Connery, Scottish Actor

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"There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments."

Bobby Scott, American Politician

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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."

Dylan Thomas, Welsh Poet

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"I have defeated this earthworm with my words. Imagine what I would have done with my fire breathing fists."

Charlie Sheen, American Actor

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"I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames."

Andy Goldsworthy, British Artist

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"Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words."

Beauty

"Invisible things are the only realities."

Philosophy

"And thus, as a closer and still closer intimacy admitted me more unreservedly into recesses if his spirit, the more bitterly did I perceive the futility of all attempt at cheering a mind from which darkness, as if an inherent positive quality, poured forth upon all objects of the moral and physical universe in one unceasing radiation of gloom."

Relationship

"The best things in life make you sweaty."

Life

"The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls..."

Psychology

"The fury of a demon instantly possessed me. I knew myself no longer. My original soul seemed, at once, to take its flight from my body; and a more than fiendish malevolence, gin-nurtured, thrilled every fibre of my frame."

Emotion

"Then, methought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censerSwung by Seraphim whose footfalls tinkled on the tufted floor."Wretch," I cried, "thy God hath lent thee--by these angels he hath sent thee--Respite--respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore!Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!"Quothe the Raven, "Nevermore."

Literature

"And all I loved, I loved alone."

Romance

"A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it."

Art

"How had I deserved to be so blessed by such confessions? -how had I deserved to be so cursed with the removal of my beloved in the hour of her making them, But upon this subject I cannot bear to dilate."

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