Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.”
—José Bergamín (1895–1983)
“The poem is lonely. It is lonely and en route. Its author stays with it. Does this very fact not place the poem already here, at its inception, in the encounter, in the mystery of encounter?”
—Paul Celan [Paul Antschel] (1920–1970)