Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

Light is the first of painters. There is no object so foul that intense light will not make it beautiful.

A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.

A light is still a light-even though the blind man cannot see it.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world.

That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh
into the world.

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

Where there is much light, the shadows are deepest.
[Ger., Wo viel Licht is, ist starker Schatten.]

But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high read more

But let my due feet never fail
To walk the studious cloisters pale,
And love the high embowed roof,
With antique pillars massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight;
Casting a dim religious light.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

With thy long levell'd rule of streaming light.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Firelight will not let you read fine stories but it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor.

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er read more

Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power
Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon
It works, on e'er self-transmutative form,
Common to now the living, now the dead.

Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray,
By passion driven;
But yet the light that led astray,
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Misled by Fancy's meteor-ray,
By passion driven;
But yet the light that led astray,
Was light from Heaven.