“Take your delight in momentariness,
Walk between dark and dark — a shining space
With the grave’s narrowness, though not its peace.”
"Sick Love," lines 10–12, from Poems 1929.
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English poet and novelist 1895–1985Related quotes
The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)
Context: Grant an Idea, Primal Cause, the Causing Cause, why crave for more?
Why strive its depth and breadth to mete, to trace its work, its aid to íimplore?
Unknown, Incomprehensible, whateíer you choose to call it, call;
But leave it vague as airy space, dark in its darkness mystical.
“A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.”
Source: Silas Marner
“Even with these dark eyes, a gift of the dark night
I go to seek the shining light.”
"A Generation" [Yidai ren]
The Saviors of God (1923)
Context: Enlighten the dark blood of your ancestors, shape their cries into speech, purify their will, widen their narrow, unmerciful brows. This is your second duty.
For you are not only a slave. As soon as you were born, a new possibility was born with you, a free heartbeat stormed through the great sunless heart of your race.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 282