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Honest criticism means nothing: what one wants is unrestrained passion, fire for fire.
(Henry Miller (1891-1980), U.S. author. Sexus, ch. 2 (1949).)
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So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot.
(George Orwell (1903-1950), British author. "Inside the Whale," Inside the Whale and Other Essays (1940).)
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I dream of a Ledaean body, bent
Above a sinking fire,
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. Among School Children (l. 9-10). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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Learn by our friendship to create
An immaterial fire,
(Thomas Stanley (1625-1678), British poet. La Belle Confidente (l. 5-6). . .
Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse, The. H. J. C. Grierson and G. Bullough, eds. (1934) Oxford University Press.)
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There's another one for the fire.
(John Russo, U.S. screenwriter, and George Romero. Sheriff McClelland (George Kosana), Night of the Living Dead, after shooting the sole survivor of the zombies, mistakenly believing him to be a zombie (1968).)
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O delicate walker, babbler, dialectician Fire,
O enemy and image of ourselves,
(Louis MacNeice (1907-1963), Anglo-Irish poet. Brother Fire (l. 13-14). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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As kingfishers catch fire, dragonflies draw flame;
(Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), British poet. As Kingfishers Catch Fire (l. 1). . .
Gerard Manley Hopkins. Catherine Phillips, ed. (1986) Oxford University Press.)
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My desire and thy desire
Twining to a tongue of fire,
(Robert Bridges (1844-1930), British poet, critic. My Delight and Thy Delight (l. 4-5). . .
New Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1950. Helen Gardner, ed. (1972) Oxford University Press.)
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That orbed maiden with white fire laden,
Whom mortals call the Moon,
(Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822), British poet. The Cloud (l. 45-46). . .
The Complete Poems of Percy Bysshe Shelley. Mary Shelley, ed. (1994) The Modern Library/Random House.)
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a mind
That nobleness made simple as a fire,
With beauty like a tightened bow,
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet. No Second Troy (l. 6-8). . .
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats. Richard J. Finneran, ed. (1989) Macmillan.)
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