Quotes on Fire Inside

Designing is a matter of concentration. You go deep into what you want to do. It's about intensive research, really. The concentration is warm and intimate and like the fire inside the earth - intense but not distorted. You can go to a place, really feel it in your heart. It's actually a beautiful feeling.

Poetry is either something that lives like fire inside you -- like music to the musician or Marxism to the Communist -- or else it is nothing, an empty, formalized bore around which pedants can endlessly drone their notes and explanations.

People think retiring is fun. Well, maybe, but if you have a certain kind of fire inside, there is no end in sight.

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

I pictured a low timber house with a shingled roof, caulked against storms, with blazing log fires inside and the walls lined with all the best books, somewhere to live when the rest of the world blew up.