“Let me light my lamp", says the star, "And never debate if it will help to remove the darkness”
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Bengali polymath 1861–1941Related quotes
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
(1917–2008) Inventor of Transcendental Meditation, musician
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.”
Algernon Charles Swinburne
(1837–1909) English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic
"Nephelidia", line 16, from The Heptalogia (1880); Swinburne intended "Nephelidia" as a self-parody.
“Opening, my eyes say 'Let there be light',
Closing, they shut me in a coffin.”
Stephen Spender
(1909–1995) English poet and man of letters
"The Human Situation"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: And if this I were destroyed,
The image shattered,
My perceived, rent world would fly
In an explosion of final judgement
To the ends of the sky,
The colour in the iris of the eye.
Opening, my eyes say 'Let there be light',
Closing, they shut me in a coffin.
George Eliot
(1819–1880) English novelist, journalist and translator
As quoted in Golden Gleams of Thought from the Words of Leading Orators, Divines, Philosophers, Statesmen and Poets (1881) by S. Pollock Linn; also in Still Waters http://books.google.com/books?id=VjAqAAAAYAAJ (1913)
