A weekly series that explores a featured theme — this month, it's fire — by pairing classic quotations with urgent images. What recent news items inspired these textual/visual sets? Check back next Wednesday afternoon for the answers.

“They say that 'Guns don't kill people, people kill people.' Well I think the gun helps. If you just stood there and yelled BANG, I don't think you'd kill too many people.” ―Eddie Izzard

“Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires.” ―William Shakespeare

“Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.” —William Carlos Williams

“Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.” ―Maya Angelou

“A cat's rage is beautiful, burning with pure cat flame, all its hair standing up and crackling blue sparks, eyes blazing and sputtering.” —William S. Burroughs

Answers to the last I See a Voice:

" Climate Change: Lessons From Ronald Reagan" (New York Times)
"Pelosi to remain as Democratic leader" (NBC News)
"Breaking Down Centi-Millionaire 'Papa' John Schnatter's Obamacare Math" (Forbes)
"Clashes as austerity anger drives Europe strikes" (CNN)
"Jack Gilbert, American Poet, Dies at 87" (Slate; image via laughterkey.tumblr.com)