Source: Tender Is the Night
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 116.
Context: And now we are wanting everyone in every country through the education department of every government to unfold that inner content of life. It’s very simple to light the lamp is so easy. And yet that process of lighting the lamp is enough to eliminate the difficulties in the darkness.
“Life is the lust of a lamp for the light that is dark till the dawn of the day that we die.”
"Nephelidia", line 16, from The Heptalogia (1880); Swinburne intended "Nephelidia" as a self-parody.
“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
“Carry a candle in the dark, be a candle in the dark, know that you're a flame in the dark.”
Variant: Thus fortified I might take my rest in peace. But dreams come through stone walls, light up dark rooms, or darken light ones, and their persons make their exists and their entrances as they please, and laugh at locksmiths.
Source: Carmilla
Part I
The City of Dreadful Night (1870–74)
Larry King Live television program (September 9, 2005)
2007, 2008
"To the Tune of ‘Like a Dream’", in The White Pony: An Anthology Of Chinese Poetry (G. Allen & Unwin, 1949), ed. Robert Payne, p. 300
