“brave love, dreamnot of staunching such strict flame, but come,lean to my wound; burn on, burn on.”
“the only unfailing guide I’ve ever found through the innumerable blind alleys of my life as a writer, man, husband, father, citizen, steward, or believer, is the love burning in my heart. for me, prayer is about one thing: making contact with that love. though it burns in there like a candle flame, hot, bright, beautiful, love’s flame is so fragile… keeping one’s love burning, and living in accord with that burning: this, to me, is prayer.”
“Passion is the spark that ignites the flame of love; to burn brighter and hotter.”
“The flame that burns Twice as bright burns half as long.”
“that blue flame burnning? Industry!”
“There is suffering in the light; in excess it burns. Flame is hostile to the wing. To burn and yet to fly, that is the miracle of genius.”