The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
As fire kindled by fire, so is the poet's mind kindled by contact with a brother poet.
I shall be found with 'Indians' engraved on my brain when I am dead. A fire has been kindled within me, which will never go out.
Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
Thought is the wind, knowledge the sail, and mankind the vessel.
It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.
Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.
The Path that leadeth on is lighted by one fire - the light of daring burning in the heart. The more one dares, the more he shall obtain.
Ideas that enter the mind under fire remain there securely and for ever.
While mantling on the maiden's cheek Young roses kindled into thought.