“… the heart is an organ of fire.”

—  Michael Ondaatje , book The English Patient

Source: The English Patient

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "… the heart is an organ of fire." by Michael Ondaatje?
Michael Ondaatje photo
Michael Ondaatje 44
Canadian writer 1943

Related quotes

Bryan Adams photo

“Oh this heart's on fire.
Right from the start it's been burnin' for you.
Oh this heart's on fire.
One thing honey - this heart's true.”

Bryan Adams (1959) Canadian singer-songwriter

Hearts on Fire, Written by Bryan Adams and Jim Vallance
Song lyrics, Into the Fire (1987)

Edith Sitwell photo

“Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.”

Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet

Green Song & Other Poems (1944), Heart and Mind

Vladimir Nabokov photo

“My heart was a hysterical unreliable organ.”

Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977) Russian-American novelist, lepidopterist, professor
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel photo

“The heart is everywhere, and each part of the organism is only the specialized force of the heart itself.”

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences

Encyclopedia of the Philosophical Sciences (1816)

Paulo Coelho photo

“behind the mask of ice that people wear, there beats a heart of fire.”

Paulo Coelho (1947) Brazilian lyricist and novelist

Source: Warrior of the Light

Matthew Arnold photo

“We cannot kindle when we will
The fire that in the heart resides”

Matthew Arnold (1822–1888) English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools

"Morality" (1852), st. 1
Context: We cannot kindle when we will
The fire that in the heart resides,
The spirit bloweth and is still,
In mystery our soul abides; —
But tasks, in hours of insight willed,
Can be through hours of gloom fulfilled.

Dante Alighieri photo

“Pride, Envy, and Avarice are
the three sparks that have set these hearts on fire.”

Dante Alighieri book Inferno

Canto VI, lines 74–75 (tr. Sinclair).
The Divine Comedy (c. 1308–1321), Inferno

Nikos Kazantzakis photo

“I am a mariner of Odysseus with heart of fire but with mind ruthless and clear.”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Toda Raba (1934)

Samuel Butler (poet) photo

“Love in your hearts as idly burns
As fire in antique Roman urns.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto I, line 309
Source: Hudibras, Part II (1664)

Related topics