“Books can ignite fires in your mind, because they carry ideas for kindling, and art for matches.”
Source: Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy
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“The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.”

“Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies.”
Interlude, p. 75
Towards a Canada of Light (2006)
Context: Electrical fire and the fire of greed kindle economies. In that flux, nations become digitized commodities on stock-exchange floors and on investors' rating screens. A country becomes a product to be rated for its obedience to paying of deficits and debts.

In "Sarojini Naidu: An Introduction to Her Life, Work and Poetry", pp=62-63