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Long enough have you dream'd contemptible dreams, Now I wash the gum from your eyes, You must habit yourself to the dazzle of the light and of every moment of your life

Walt Whitman, Ezra Greenspan (2005). “Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself": A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.190, Psychology Press

O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!

Walt Whitman (2008). “Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1860-1867”, p.334, NYU Press

A diary is more or less the work of a man of clay whose hands are clumsy and in whose eyes there is no light.

Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.30, Univ of California Press

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

Voltaire (1769). “Letters addressed to his Highness the Prince of *****, containing comments on the writings of the most eminent authors, who have been accused of attacking the Christian Religion”, p.49