To follow up on

The fire which enlightens is the same fire which consumes.
-Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)

here's a passage, from a different perspective, by one of the greatest poets of the last century:

Let's see the very thing and nothing else.
Let's see it with the hottest fire of sight.
Burn everything not part of it to ash.
Wallace Stevens, Credences of Summer