
“The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.”
A collection of quotes on the topic of bonfire, burn, burning, likeness.
“The bigger you build the bonfire, the more darkness is revealed.”
“I stand entwined in fire on the inextinguishable bonfire of inconceivable love.”
Source: Why We Broke Up
'Islam's Gangster Tactics', in the London Independent newspaper , 1989
Writing
“Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.”
Source: Poustinia (1975), Ch. 5
Letter to Abigail Adams (3 July 1776); because of the official adoption of the United States Declaration of Independence two days later, the fourth of July rather than the second, became known as the U.S. Independence Day
1770s
Source: "Unsafe at Any Speed or: Safe, Sane and Consensual, My Fanny", p. 13
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter X, p. 56
after 2000, Gerhard Richter: An Artist Beyond Isms' (2002)
1840s, Past and Present (1843)
Quoted in 'Enter the Heart of the Fire : A collection of Mystical Poems (1981) by Mary E. Giles and Kathryn Hohlwein
“Burning autumn leaves,
I yearn to make the bonfire
Bigger and bigger.”
Haiku: This Other World (1998)