“We have a tower built of ice, and we fill it with wood and light it on fire.”
Aaron Costic
“Without wood a fire goes out; without gossip a quarrel dies down”
Bible
“In the middle of the road of my life I awoke in the dark wood where the true way was wholly lost”
Dante Alighieri
“Now Autumn's fire burns slowly along the woodsAnd day by day the dead leaves fall and melt.”
William Allingham
“As the blazing fire reduces wood to ashes, similarly, the fire of Self-knowledge reduces all Karma to ashes.”
Bhagavad Gita
“The grate had been removed from the wide overwhelming fireplace, to make way for a fire of wood, in the midst of which was an enormous log glowing and blazing, and sending forth a vast volume of light and heat; this I understood was the Yule-log, which the Squire was particular in having brought in and illumined on a Christmas eve, according to ancient custom.”
Washington Irving
“Wood already touched by fire is not hard to set alight”
African Proverb
