“Lovers put out the candles and draw the curtains, when they wish to see…” — Coventry Patmore

“Lovers put out the candles and draw the curtains, when they wish to see the god and the goddess; and in the higher Communion, the night of thought is the light of perception.”

Linking human intimacy with mystical perception beyond ordinary reason · The Rod, the Root, and the Flower, Aurea Dicta XIII

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Coventry Patmore

About Coventry Patmore

23 July 1823–26 November 1896

Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was born on 23 July 1823 at Woodford, then a village in Essex on the eastern edge of London, and died on 26 November 1896 at Lymington in Hampshire. During his lifetime he became one of the most distinctive, admired, mocked, and misunderstood English poets of the Victorian age. His…

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