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Light Quotes by Philip James Bailey
- Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.
- Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now…
- For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
- The poet's pen is the true divining rod Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling; Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,…
- The sun, centre and sire of light, The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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