Famous quotes containing the words light and/or poem:
“... by desiring what is perfectly good, even when we dont quite know what it is and cannot do what we would, we are part of the divine power against evilwidening the skirts of light and making the struggle with darkness narrower.”
—George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)
“This is the poem of the air,
Slowly in silent syllables recorded;
This is the secret of despair,
Long in its cloudy bosom hoarded,
Now whispered and revealed
To wood and field.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (18091882)