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Light Quotes by Theodore Roethke
- All finite things reveal infinitude: The mountain with its singular bright shade Like the blue shine on freshly frozen snow, The after-light upon ice-burdened pines;…
- And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.
- Deep in their roots, all flowers keep the light.
- The darkness has it's own light.
- What's madness but nobility of soul At odds with circumstance? The day's on fire! I know the purity of pure despair, My shadow pinned against…
- In this place of light: he dares to live Who stops being a bird, yet beats his wings Against the immense immeasurable emptiness of things.
- In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
- I learned not to fear infinity, The far field, the windy cliffs of forever, The dying of time in the white light of tomorrow, The…
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- The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — Saint Augustine
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