“To Know the Dark”
“To Know the Dark”
To Know the Dark
To go in the dark with a light is to know the light.
To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight,
and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings,
and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings.
—Wendell Berry, The Selected Poems of Wendell Berry (1998)
via Paul Bogard, The End of Night (2013)
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