“[She] heard the bitter, heartsick words
that made the fires of Hell burn cold
and soothed the lost spirits under the world.”

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.”

“Cold and sharp in the edges, full of fire and warm under the surface”

“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. Yes indeed.”

“It is an heretic that makes the fire,
Not she which burns in't.”

“A match made in Heaven, set the fires in Hell”

“She watched his lips forming the words, at the same time she heard them under her skin, under her winter coat, so near and full of warmth that she felt herself go hot.”

“The muffled syllables that Nature speaks
Fill us with deeper longing for her word;
She hides a meaning that the spirit seeks,
She makes a sweeter music than is heard.”

“Motivation is a fire from within. If someone else tries to light that fire under you, chances are it will burn very briefly.”

“Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn”