“I'm impaled on the blue flames of his blowtorch eyes, you see.”
Jani Allan (1952) South African columnist and broadcaster
Description of Eugene Terre'Blanche in the Face to Face column published on 31 January 1989.
Sunday Times
“Flames were rising from the waters and in the flames a blue man lived.”
Black Elk Speaks (1961)
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“Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.”
Peter J. Carroll (1953) British occultist
Source: Liber Null & Psychonaut (1987), p. 31
Context: As a great master once observed: "There are two methods of becoming god, the upright or the averse." Let the mind become as a flame or a pool of still water.
Boris Yeltsin (1931–2007) 1st President of Russia and Chairman of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR
Statement to a TImes reporter in 1990, as quoted in "The wit and wisdom of Boris" in Guardian Unlimited (23 April 2007)
1990s
Friedrich Nietzsche book Human, All Too Human
Section IX, "Man Alone with Himself" / aphorism 570
Human, All Too Human (1878), Helen Zimmern translation
“He came in tongues of living flame”
Harriet Auber (1773–1862) British poet, hymnwriter
Our Blest Redeemer, ere He breathed (Baptist Hymn Book, Psalms and Hymns Trust, London, 1962)
“Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.”
Emil M. Cioran (1911–1995) Romanian philosopher and essayist
Tears and Saints (1937)
“Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.”
Voltairine de Cleyre (1866–1912) American anarchist writer and feminist
"Written-In-Red" de Cleyre's last poem, dedicated "To Our Living Dead in Mexico's Struggle"; first lines.
Context: Written in red their protest stands,
For the Gods of the World to see;
On the dooming wall their bodiless hands
have blazoned "Upharsin," and flaring brands
Illumine the message: "Seize the lands!
Open the prisons and make men free!"
Flame out the living words of the dead
Written-in-red.
