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“Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages. Memories charge in, bright flags on high; the cavalry of metaphor deploys with a magnificent gallop; the artillery of logic rushes up with clattering wagons and cartridges; on imagination's orders, sharpshooters sight and fire; forms and shapes and characters rear up; the paper is spread with ink - for the nightly labor begins and ends with torrents of this black water, as a battle opens and concludes with black powder.”

“Blessed the man that hath visited `Akká, and blessed he that hath visited the visitor of `Akká. Blessed the one that hath drunk from the Spring of the Cow and washed in its waters, for the black-eyed damsels quaff the camphor in Paradise, which hath come from the Spring of the Cow, and from the Spring of Salvan (Siloam), and the Well of Zamzam. Well is it with him that hath drunk from these springs, and washed in their waters, for God hath forbidden the fire of hell to touch him and his body on the Day of Resurrection.”

Men Wells Body Black Water Hell Fire He Man Spring Blessed Drunk Paradise Cows Resurrection Forbidden Visitors

Author:Bahá'u'lláh

“A bizarrerie of fires, cunabulum of light, it moved with a deft, almost dainty deliberation, phasing into and out of existence like a storm-shot piece of evening; or perhaps the darkness between the flares was more akin to its truest nature swirl of black ashes assembled in prancing cadence to the lowing note of desert wind down the arroyo behind buildings as empty yet filled as the pages of unread books or stillnesses between the notes of a song.”

Source: Frost and Fire

“The large gray spiked form rising from the bottom of the picture is to me the symbol of death and ruin. And finally the black ovoid form is the symbol of fire, lava and destruction.”

Form Black Fire Destruction Bottom Ruins Symbols Rising Gray Lava

Author:William Baziotes

“Like all passions, anger has degrees, ascending from slight vexation through deepening clouds to rage, and finally to fury, which is a black and horrible tempest. In its mid-region, where it is neither too little to be motive nor too furious to be ungovernable, it has usefulness. For all feeling is as fuel, and where there is none life has no fire, and then no flame of ascent.”

Littles Feelings Passion Black Fire Degrees Anger Clouds Rage Horrible Flames Motive Fuel Regions Fury Usefulness Furious Tempest Ascent Vexation Ascending

Author:James Vila Blake

“The white face of the winter day came sluggishly on, veiled in a frosty mist; and the shadowy ships in the river slowly changed to black substances; and the sun, blood-red on the eastern marshes behind dark masts and yards, seemed filled with the ruins of a forest it had set on fire.”

Faces Black Nature Dark White Behinds Sun Fire Blood Changed Red Rivers Filled Winter Forests Ships Ruins Substance Yards Eastern Mist Marshes Masts Winter Days

Book:Our Mutual Friend

Source: Our Mutual Friend

“Despite my asbestos gloves, the cough is filling me with black, and a red powder seeps through my veins.”

Black Fire Red Despite Burning Veins Filling Gloves Powder Asbestos

Author:Anne Sexton

“I want to hear the chanting Around a heathen fire Of a strange black race.”

Want Black Race Fire Strange Singing Chanting Heathen Black Race

Author:Gwendolyn B. Bennett

“Gamaun is a dainty steed, Strong, black, and of a noble breed, Full of fire, and full of bone, With all his line of fathers known; Fine his nose, his nostrils thin, But blown abroad by the pride within; His mane is like a river flowing, And his eyes like embers glowing In the darkness of the night, And his pace as swift as light.”

Light Eye Night Father Strong Black Lines Known Darkness Fire Pride Fine Rivers Horse Bones Noble Noses His Eyes Pace Glowing Embers Dainty

Author:Bryan Procter

“Forest who is in love with fire will wear black wedding gown in her wedding!”

Love Black Fire Forests Gowns

Author:Mehmet Murat Ildan

“Once again, my colleague Stephen Hawking has upset the apple cart. The event horizon surrounding a black hole was once though to be an imaginary sphere. But recent theories indicate that it may actually be physical, maybe even a sphere of fire. But I don't trust any of these calculations until we have a full-blown string theory calculation, since Einstein's theory by itself is incomplete.”

May Black Fire Events Theory Holes Upset Apples Strings Horizon Spheres Imaginary Colleagues Calculations Incomplete Don't Trust Carts Black Hole Event Horizon String Theory

Author:Michio Kaku

“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to what you call the lower class, and when I talk about the masses, I'm talking about the white masses, I'm talking about the black masses, and the brown masses, and the yellow masses, too. We've got to face the fact that some people say you fight fire best with fire, but we say you put fire out best with water. We say you don't fight racism with racism. We're gonna fight racism with solidarity. We say you don't fight capitalism with no black capitalism; you fight capitalism with socialism.”

People Facts Faces Fighting Black Water White Poor Talking Class Fire Mass Racism Capitalism Socialism Brown Yellow Solidarity Lower Class

Author:Fred Hampton