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Let me give light, but let me not be light,
For a light wife doth make a heavy husband.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Portia, in The Merchant of Venice, act 5, sc. 1, l. 129-130.
Playing on the idea of "light" as wanton or unchaste.)
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Love was before the light began,
When light if over,love shall be
(Unknown. The Thousand and One Nights.
AWP. Anthology of World Poetry, An. Mark Van Doren, ed. (Rev. and enl. Ed., 1936) Reynal & Hitchcock.)
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Light, seeking light, doth light of light beguile;
So ere you find where light in darkness lies,
Your light grows dark by losing of your eyes.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Berowne, in Love's Labor's Lost, act 1, sc. 1, l. 77-9.
Arguing that as too much light dazzles and makes the eye unable to see, so too much study only confuses the student.)
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The eastern light our spires touch at morning,
The light that slants upon our western doors at evening,
The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight,
Moon light and star light, owl and moth light,
Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade.
O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!
(T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot (1888-1965), U.S.-born—British poet, critic. "Choruses from 'The Rock'....")
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If we see light at the end of the tunnel,
It's the light of the oncoming train.
(Robert Lowell (1917-1977), U.S. poet. Since 1939, Day by Day (1977).)
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He brings light, as only the great dare to bring light, to the issueless predicament of existence.
(Samuel Beckett (1906-1989), Irish dramatist, novelist. "Macgreevy on Yeats," p. 2, Irish Times, August 4, 1945.
Beckett is referring to the Irish painter and author Jack B. Yeats.)
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"I weave the shoes of Sorrow:
Soundless shall be the footfall light
In all men's ears of Sorrow,
Sudden and light."
(William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), Irish poet, playwright. "The Cloak, the Boat, and the Shoes.")
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Put out the light, and then put out the light.
If I quench thee, thou flaming minister,
I can again thy former light restore
Should I repent me; but once put out thy light,
Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature,
I know not where is that Promethean heat
That can thy light relume.
(William Shakespeare (1564-1616), British dramatist, poet. Othello, in Othello, act 5, sc. 2, l. 7-13.
The "light" is both that of the candle ("flaming minister") he carries and that of Desdemona; Prometheus in Greek legend stole fire from the gods to give it to human beings; "relume" means light again.)
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something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,
(William Wordsworth (1770-1850), British poet. Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey (l. 97-98). . .
The Poems; Vol. 1 [William Wordsworth]. John O. Hayden, ed. (1977, repr. 1990) Penguin Books.)
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I saw Eternity the other night,
Like a great ring of pure and endless light,
(Henry Vaughan (1622-1695), Welsh poet. The World (l. 1-2). . .
Oxford Book of English Verse, The, 1250-1918. Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, ed. (New ed., rev. and enl., 1939) Oxford University Press.)
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