What is there to worry about if the house has caught fire? It is not the flame of the heart that I would be unable to extinguish.

Here, the poet draws a striking contrast between outer material loss and the uncontrollable fire within. While a burning house looks like a total tragedy to the world, he brushes it off because physical flames can always be put out with water. The real, uncontainable danger is the flame of love, grief, and longing inside the heart—an inner blaze that no one has the power to extinguish.