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To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight.
And know that the dark too blooms and sings,
And is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
-- Wendell Berry
You, darkness, of whom I am born --
I love you more than the flame
that limits the world
to the circle it illumines
and excludes all the rest.
But the dark embraces everything:
shapes and shadows, creatures and me,
people, nations -- just as they are.
It lets me imagine
a great presence stirring beside me.
I believe in the night.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke
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