#darkness

Confusion heard his voice, and wild uproar Stood ruled, stood vast infinitude confined; Till at his second bidding darkness fled, Light shone, and order from disorder sprung. ↗

— John Milton

#confined #confusion #darkness #disorder #fled

Genius without religion is only a lamp on the outer gate of a palace; it may serve to cast a gleam of light on those that are without, while the inhabitant sits in darkness. ↗

— Hannah More

#darkness #gate #genius #gleam #inhabitant

I read and walked for miles at night along the beach, writing bad blank verse and searching endlessly for someone wonderful who would step out of the darkness and change my life. It never crossed my mind that that person could be me. ↗

— Anna Quindlen

#bad #beach #blank #change #could

What strange places our lives can carry us to, what dark passages. ↗

— Justin Cronin

#life #life

The continuous narrative of existence is a lie. There is no continuous narrative, there are lit-up moments, and the rest is dark. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#life #life

Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness. ↗

— Julia Cameron

#creativity #darkness #human #human life #itself

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. ↗

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

#metaphor #poetry #wisdom #love

Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm. ↗

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

#heart #love #love

Love is the light by which all are brought forward out of darkness. ↗

— LeeAnn Taylor

#earth #fear #heaven #hope #humanity

Perhaps everything terrible is, in its deepest being, something that needs our love. ↗

— Rainer Maria Rilke

#evil #help #love #terrible #love