“I walked through the Fire…and lived to tell about it…”

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“O early one morning I walked out like Agag,
Early one morning to walk through the fire
Dodging the pythons that leaked on the pavements
With tinkle of glasses and tangle of wire.”

Louis MacNeice (1907–1963) poet

"The Streets of Laredo", line 1, from Holes in the Sky (1948)
MacNeice’s poem, a grotesque vision of the London Blitz, is not to be confused with the cowboy ballad "The Streets of Laredo".

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“Through years of my prime
I walked with a heart
crazy about love.”

Suman Pokhrel (1967) Nepali poet, lyricist, playwright, translator and artist

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E.E. Cummings photo

“Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backward.”

E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet

Variant: Trust your heart if the seas catch fire, live by love though the stars walk backwards.

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“Through the darkness of future past, the magician longs to see, one chance out between two worlds, fire walk with me!”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor
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“I was walking through the woods, thinking about Christ. If He was a carpenter, I wondered what He charged for bookshelves.”

Woody Allen (1935) American screenwriter, director, actor, comedian, author, playwright, and musician

Love and Death (1975)

“One who walks from fire to fire dies from the cold.”

Antonio Porchia (1885–1968) Italian Argentinian poet

Voces (1943)

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