<P> Although `` Ring of Fire '' sounds ominous , the term refers to falling in love -- which is what June Carter was experiencing with Johnny Cash at the time . Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase `` Love is like a burning ring of fire , '' underlined in one of her uncle A.P. Carter 's Elizabethan books of poetry . She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past . She had written : `` There is no way to be in that kind of hell , no way to extinguish a flame that burns , burns , burns '' . </P>
<P> Although `` Ring of Fire '' sounds ominous , the term refers to falling in love -- which is what June Carter was experiencing with Johnny Cash at the time . Some sources claim that Carter had seen the phrase `` Love is like a burning ring of fire , '' underlined in one of her uncle A.P. Carter 's Elizabethan books of poetry . She worked with Kilgore on writing a song inspired by this phrase as she had seen her uncle do in the past . She had written : `` There is no way to be in that kind of hell , no way to extinguish a flame that burns , burns , burns '' . </P>
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