Beltane Quote by Carole Carlton

“In the burning orb of the sun dwelt the mysterious spirits controlling fire, and in honor of this great light, fires burned upon the…

— Manly P. Hall

The flames sawed in the wind and the embers paled and deepened and paled and deepened like the bloodbeat of some living thing eviscerate…

— Cormac McCarthy

“I should add, however, that, particularly on the occasion of Samhain, bonfires were lit with the express intention of scaring away the demonic forces…

— Lewis Spence

“The sacred fire burns in our heart.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire.

— Gustav Mahler

Those candle flames were like the lives of men. So fragile. So deadly. Left alone, they lit and warmed. Let run rampant, they would…

— Brandon Sanderson

A hidden fire burns perpetually upon the hearth of the world… In autumn this great conflagration becomes especially manifest. Then the flame that is…

— Hugh Macmillan

“A ritual becomes the match that lights the kindred celebration candle of sacred moments long ago… tantalizing these entombed spirits to surface again.”

— Wes Adamson

“More than the choking heat, more than the blinding flames that rise up into the night sky, more than the endlessly leaping colours that…

— Adele Geras

“Moreover to light a fire is the instinctive and resistant act of man when, at the winter ingress, the curfew is sounded throughout Nature.…

— Thomas Hardy

“The Old Cornwall Society decided during the 1920s to revive the custom of lighting fires along the Cornish peninsula, beginning in the east and…

— Carole Carlton

“Since fire's born of fire, why should we desire To gather up its scattered ash. On the appointed day we surrendered what we were…

— Yves Bonnefoy