To go into 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 ways”
-Wendell Berry

You darkness, that I come from,

I love you more than all the fires that fence in the world,

for the fire makes a circle of light for everyone, and then no one outside learns of you.

But the darkness pulls in everything: shapes and fires, animals and myself,

how easily it gathers them! – powers and people –

and it is possible a great energy is moving near me.

I have faith in nights. Rainer Maria Rilke