"kindle a flame" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to metaphorically igniting a passionate feeling or intense emotion, or to literally light a fire. For example, "The passionate embrace kindled a flame in their hearts."
"The influence of factious leaders may kindle a flame within their particular States, but will be unable to spread a general conflagration through the other States," he assured readers in Federalist No. 10.
But also to awaken; to kindle a flame that you hope will never go out; to guide your pupils towards insights, ideas and revelations that they would never have arrived at without your dedication, patience and skill.
Once the groups of scouts have reached the summits of Scafell Pike in England, Snowdon in Wales, Ben Nevis in Scotland and Slieve Donard in Northern Ireland, they will ignite the fire of this Paralympics using flints to create a spark and kindle a flame.
We kindle a flame to commemorate a miracle, we gaze at its light, and we are forbidden to use that light for any other purpose.
"What's the science behind that?" he says as the instructor kindles a flame by rubbing wire wool against a battery.
Afterwards, I can say that Haiti reaches into your heart and kindles a flame that burns bright.
Passion kindled, a flame that continues to burn bright, even in the moments when I find myself in a snowy tangle.
Even the birth of her child does not kindle a human flame in her heart, but when her husband frames up a kidnapping and she feels what it is to be without her baby, the Spark Divine begins to glow.
She noted the "abundance of materials for the [masculine] history of action" and attempted to add balance by telling the feminine side, referring to the founding "mothers" as giving "nurture in the domestic sanctuary of that love of civil liberty which afterwards kindled into a flame and shed light on the world".
The Paris climate agreement kindled "a huge flame of hope", establishing a new model of 21st-century diplomacy, the woman behind the deal has declared.
Use small kindling to start a flame, gradually building the fire until you have at least a wheelbarrow load of dry logs burning.
