Gaston Bachelard Quotes

Fire is the Sun unwinding from the tree's log.

Fire isn't always an element of destruction. Classical alchemical doctrine teaches that it also has dominion over another province: change.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

Fire is next akin to smoke.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

The house burned an hour before midnight on the last day of April. The wild, distant ringing of the fire bells woke George Hazard. He stumbled through the dark hallway, then upstairs to the mansion tower, and stepped outside into the narrow balcony.

Five and forty steps the sky will burn. Fire approaching the large new city. Instantly a great thin flame will leap, when someone will want to test the Normans.

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.

I'm thinking maybe letting the latches burn is the right idea. Let everything burn until there's nothing left but ashes and cool rain.

Water is powerful. It can wash away earth, put out fire, and even destroy iron.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

A spark can set a whole forest on fire. Just a spark. Save it.

What is more useful than fire? Yet if any one prepares to burn a house, it is with fire that he arms his daring hands.

Wood feeds the fire which burns it.

Spontaneous combustion IS a form of harm, Mr. D," Chiron put in.

The information was kept hidden for the same reason we keep matches from children. In the correct hands, fire can provide illumination... but in the wrong hands, fire can be highly destructive.

Playing with fire Kitten?

purification in fire. public cremation

It was a pleasure to burn.

Poorpeoplestaying intheir houses aslong astill thevery fire touched them, and then running into boats or clambering from one pair of stair by the waterside to another. And among other things, the poor pigeons I perceive were loath to leave their houses, but hovered about the windows and balconies till they were some of them burned, their wings, and fell down.

In neglected fields the fern grows, which must be cleared out by fire.

like our parents always told us not to like firefighters warn against we're playing games and making the rules up as we go we're matching warmth to warmth starting fires burning wishes into our skin we're hidden holding forbidden lights we're children whose fathers have never taught never touch but we're finding these new flames we smother at the sound of footsteps.

For those without fire, any fire is strange fire.

A miniature village in Bournemouth caught fire and the flames could be seen nearly three feet away.