A Quote by John Keble

For as fire is kindled by fire, so is a poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

John Keble

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John Keble
English - Priest
April 25, 1792 - March 29, 1866

As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.

John Keble

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Dorothea Brande

Let's return to our first love, in order to receive the fire which Jesus has kindled in the world and to bring that fire to all people, to the very ends of the earth.

Pope Francis

Prudence never kindled a fire in the human mind; I have no hope for conservation born of fear.

Aldo Leopold

In all parts of the Old World, as well as of the New, it was evident that Columbus had kindled a fire in every mariner's heart. That fire was the harbinger of a new era, for it was not to be extinguished.

Charles Kendall Adams

I don't believe anything can do as much for a room as a glowing fire in an attractive fireplace. Men and dogs love an open fire - they show good sense. It is the heart of any room and should be kindled on the slightest provocation.

Dorothy Draper

The larch... is not only preserved from decay and the worm by the great bitterness of its sap, but also it cannot be kindled with fire nor ignite of itself, unless like stone in a limekiln it is burned with other wood... This is because there is a very small proportion of the elements of fire and air in its composition, which is a dense and solid mass of moisture and the earthy, so that it has no open pores through which fire can find its way... Further, its weight will not let it float in water.

Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

Deep theology is the best fuel of devotion; it readily catches fire, and once kindled it burns long.

Frederick William Faber

What are the odds so long as the fire of the soul is kindled at the taper of conviviality, and the wing of friendship never molts a feather?

Charles Dickens

My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel inforced out of a flint It is no sooner kindled, but extinct.

William Goffe

If the poet wants to be a poet, the poet must force the poet to revise. If the poet doesn't wish to revise, let the poet abandon poetry and take up stamp-collecting or real estate.

Donald Hall

All through it, I have known myself to be quite undeserving. And yet I have had the weakness, and have still the weakness, to wish you to know with what a sudden mastery you kindled me, heap of ashes that I am, into fire- a fire, however, inseparable in its nature from myself, quickening nothing, lighting nothing, doing no service, idly burning away.

Charles Dickens

The Cross is the blazing fire at which the flame of our love is kindled, but we have to get near enough for its sparks to fall on us.