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

―Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

Moonlight Sonata

Dracula, 3:29-4:18

Poem: Tracers

Poem: Darkness of the Subjunctive

Poem: How Dark the Beginning

Poem: Darkness

Poem: The Comfort of Darkness

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

Blood Meridian

Heart of Darkness

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