Fire
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I had two dreams about him after he died. I dont remember the first one all that well but it was about meetin him in town somewheres and he give me some money and I think I lost it. But the second one it was like we was both back in older times and I was on horseback goin through the mountains of a night. Goin through this pass in the mountains. It was cold and there was snow on the ground and he rode past me and kept on goin. Never said nothin. He just rode on past and he had this blanket wrapped around him and he had his head down and when he rode past I seen he was carryin fire in a horn the way people used to do and I could see the horn from the light inside of it. About the color of the moon. And in the dream I knew that he was goin on ahead and that he was fixin to make a fire somewhere out there in all that dark and all that cold and I knew that whenever I got there he would be there.
—Cormac McCarthy
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Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very streets today
Burns like a red-coal carpet
Mad bull lost your way
—Rolling Stones
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…his raptures were
all air and fire,
which made his verses clear,
for that fine madness
still he did retain,
which rightly should possess
a poet’s brain
—Michael Drayton
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Pardon me
while I burst into flames.
—Incubus
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It is not light that we need, but fire. It is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, the earthquake.
—Frederick Douglass
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Catch a fire.
—Bob Marley
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I’m on fire.
—Bruce Springsteen
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Let me stand next to your fire.
—Jimi Hendrix
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The child who is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
—African proverb
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Poem: [O'Keeffe said "Starry Night"]
Poem: [Here again in the middle of beauty]