“The exceeding brightness of this early sunMakes me conceive how dark I have become.”

“We say God and the imagination are one . . .How high that highest candle lights the dark.”

“We must endure our thoughts all night, until the bright obvious stands motionless in cold.”

“Throw away the light, the definitions, and say what you see in the dark.”

“I am what is around me.”

“Sigh for me, night-wind, in the noisy leaves of the oak. / I am tired. Sleep for me, heaven over the hill. / Shout for me, loudly and loudly, joyful sun, when you rise.”

“I am the truth, since I am part of what is real, but neither more nor less than those around me.”