“Bereavement is a darkness impenetrable to the imagination of the unbereaved.”
The Sacred and Profane Love Machine (1974) p. 37.
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British writer and philosopher 1919–1999Related quotes
As quoted by George P. Thayer in The Further Shores of Politics: The American Political Fringe Today, 2d ed. (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968), p. 27.
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“We say God and the imagination are one…
How high that highest candle lights the dark.”
"Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour"
Collected Poems (1954)
Context: We say God and the imagination are one...
How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Out of this same light, out of the central mind,
We make a dwelling in the evening air,
In which being there together is enough.
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The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)
Context: St. John said, "And the light shineth in the darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not." The light shines in the darkness and the darkness does not understand it, and cannot extinguish it ( I need the double meaning here of comprehend). This is the great cry of affirmation that is heard over and over again in our imaginative literature, in all art. It is a light to lighten our darkness, to guide us, and we do not need to know, in the realm of provable fact, exactly where it is going to take us.
“Calvin: I think nighttime is dark so you can imagine your fears with less distraction.
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Source: The Indispensable Calvin and Hobbes
