“A spark could be enough to set them ablaze.”
Suzanne Collins book Catching Fire
Source: Catching Fire
“In wrath I strike, and set the dark ablaze
With the immortal spark of thought,
By friction-process brought
Of concentration
And distraction.
The darkness burns
With a million tongues;
And now I spy
All past, all distant things, as nigh.”
Songs of the Soul by Paramahansa Yogananda, Quotes drawn from the poem "Nature’s Nature"
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