Variant: The light came into the darkness, and the darkness did not understand it, but that no longer mattered because the light was now obliteration the darkness.
Source: House
“How many people came and stayed a certain time,
Uttered light or dark speech that became part of you
Like light behind windblown fog and sand
Filtered and influenced by it, until no part
Remains that is surely you.”
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John Ashbery 14
poet from the United States 1927–2017Related quotes

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 389.

Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 39.

Section 1 : The Meaning of Life
Life and Destiny (1913)

“Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?”
Source: Fahrenheit 451