“One lucent corner windowing hidden things
Forced the world's blind immensity to sight.
The darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak
From the reclining body of a god.”

— Sri Aurobindo, book Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol

Savitri (1918-1950), Book One : The Book Of Beginnings

Adopted from Wikiquote. Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "One lucent corner windowing hidden things Forced the world's blind immensity to sight. The darkness failed and slippe…" by Sri Aurobindo?

Sri Aurobindo224

Indian nationalist, freedom fighter, philosopher, yogi, gur… 1872–1950

Related quotes

“The end is near. I hear a noise at the door, as of some immense slippery body lumbering against it. It shall not find me. God, that hand! The window! The window!”

H.P. Lovecraft book Dagon

Fiction
Source: "Dagon" - Written Jul 1917; First published in The Vagrant, No. 11 (November 1919)

“One may call the world a myth, in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden.”

Sallustius Roman philosopher and writer

III. Concerning myths; that they are divine, and why.
On the Gods and the Cosmos
Context: One may call the world a myth, in which bodies and things are visible, but souls and minds hidden. Besides, to wish to teach the whole truth about the Gods to all produces contempt in the foolish, because they cannot understand, and lack of zeal in the good, whereas to conceal the truth by myths prevents the contempt of the foolish, and compels the good to practice philosophy.

“Wear gratitude like a cloak, and it will feed every corner of your life.”

Rumi (1207–1273) Iranian poet

“A woman's body is a dark and monstrous mystery;
between her supple thighs a heavy whirlpool swirls,
two rivers crash, and woe to him who slips and falls!”

Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer

Odysseus, Book II, line 1017
The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel (1938)

“It is one thing to be blind, and another to be in darkness.”

Coventry Patmore (1823–1896) English poet

Aurea Dicta XLIV, p. 15.
The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895)

“No one who is not utterly blind can fail to see that God gathered all the beauty of which the whole world is capable of in woman.”

Cornelius Agrippa (1486–1535) Magician, occult writer, theologian, astrologer, alchemist

“Catching the light and falling into dark
And the world fades out like an overheard remark…
In the falling dark”

Bruce Cockburn (1945) Canadian folk/rock guitarist and singer-songwriter

Title track, In The Falling Dark (See also: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I, lines 62-63) Just Listen.. http://www.youtube.com//watch?v=lYAFzVTLIQs <br class="br">In the Falling Dark (1976)