The goal of the fundamentalists is to switch off the light and make us see by the flame of one candle.
The poem is not a thing we see; it is, rather, a light by which we may see.
Why is light denied?
Usually we are illuminating things instead of looking at the light itself. But I like this quality of the light being the revelation.
On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.
Art has the power to transform, to illuminate, to educate, inspire and motivate.
It is a great blessing to have light in our lives - a light that helps us see things as they really are, light that illuminates our understanding, light we can follow with confidence and perfect trust.
The office of the scholar is to cheer, to raise, and to guide men by showing them facts amidst appearances.
Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity than the sunshine is changed by the variety of objects which it illuminates.
... the ocean could not be swept back with a broom. The truth was out. It illuminated the world. Motherhood no longer cringed before the relentless laws of fecundity.
