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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to read more
The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach.
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
...Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us, and sometimes, they win.
 Yet from those flames
 No light, but rather darkness visible.  
 Yet from those flames
 No light, but rather darkness visible. 
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
And out of darkness came the hands that reach thro' nature, moulding men.
 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
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 Or, if there were a sympathy in choice,
 War, death, or sickness did lay siege to it,
  Making it momentany as a sound,
   Swift as a shadow, short as any dream,
    Brief as the lightning in the collied night,
     That, in a spleen, unfolds both heaven and earth,
      And ere a man hath power to say 'Behold!'
       The jaws of darkness do devour it up:
        So quick bright things come to confusion. 
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how read more
I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
When it is dark enough, you can see the stars.
 The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
 The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;
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 The waves were dead; the tides were in their grave,
 The Moon, their Mistress, had expired before;
  The winds were wither'd in the stagnant air,
   And the clouds perish'd; darkness had no need
    Of aid from them--she was the Universe.