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Theodore Roethke Quotes: In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.
         

In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.


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This page presents the quote "In a dark time, the eye begins to see / I meet my shadow in the deepening shade...Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire.". Author of this quote is Theodore Roethke. This quote is about light, dark, time, eye, shade, desire, shadow,.