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The curfew tolls the knell
of parting day,
The lowing herd wind slowly
o'er the lea,
The plowman homeward plods
his weary way,
And leaves the world to darkness
and to me.

―Thomas Gray

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The woods are lovely,
dark and deep.

―Robert Frost

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Shower in the dark day,
clean sparks diving down…

―Soundgarden

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Someone I once loved gave me a box full of darkness. It took me years to understand that this, too, was a gift.

―Mary Oliver

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Darkness has a hunger
that’s insatiable,
and lightness has a call
that’s hard to hear.

—Indigo Girls

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Life’s water flows from darkness.
Search the darkness.

—Rumi

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I know the darkness pulls on you,
but it's just a point of view.

—Brandi Carlile

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Hello darkness, my old friend.
I’ve come to talk with you again.

—Simon & Garfunkel

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Help us to be ever faithful gardeners of the spirit, who know that without darkness nothing comes to birth, and without light nothing flowers.

—May Sarton

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The darkness around us is deep.

―William Stafford

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Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.

―Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.

—Rainer Maria Rilke

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In the dark times,
will there also be singing?
Yes, there will be singing
about the dark times.

—Bertolt Brecht

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There are truths one can see
only when it's dark.

—Isaac Bashevis Singer

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I will follow you into the dark.

—Death Cab for Cutie

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Darkness within darkness.
The gateway to all understanding.

—Lao Tzu

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Blown from the dark hill
hither to my door
Three flakes, then four
Arrive, then many more.

―Edna St. Vincent Millay

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When it is dark enough,
you can see the stars.

―Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Poem: The Comfort of Darkness

Poem: How Dark the Beginning

Poem: Darkness

Poem: Darkness

Poem: Nightmare

Poem: Tracers

Poem: Darkness of the Subjunctive

Poem: Those Winter Sundays

Poem: The Dark Cavalier

Poem: World of Darkness

Poem: Altars of Light

Poem: The Magic Sleep and the Memory of Waking

Poem: Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Poem: Not Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

Poem: Darkness and Deeper Dark

Poem: Eternity

Poem: Unnamed Shapes

Poem: This Place of Broken Words

Poem: Forgiving the Darkness

Poem: The Darkness Sooner

Poem: Just as the Darkness Got Very Dark / Another Data Point

Poem: The signals come in from the dark

Poem: The White Room

Poem: Walking, Blues

Poem: Sparklers

Poem: When Death Comes

Poem: Birds and Bees

Poem: At Nightfall

Poem: Red Stick Noonshine

Poem: Not Even They Could Stop It, and They Were Myth

Poem: The Bad Habit

Poem: The Dream of February

Poem: Doomsday

Poem: Near the End of June

Poem: Lessons in Darkness

Poem: The Day

Poem: Sight

Poem: Y2K

Poem: Land’s End

Poem: After Work

Prelude in C sharp minor, Op.3 No.2

Moonlight Sonata

Dracula, 3:29-4:18

Blood Meridian

Heart of Darkness

Darkness

Dark blue

It is dark, it is ancient, and it is deep

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