The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John Of The… | Poetry Foundation
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The Dark Night of the Soul by St. John Of The… | Poetry Foundation
Poetry possesses many secrets just waiting to be revealed to patient seekers of truth. I love to meditate on a line just before drifting off to sleep.
de la privation maudite qui frappe Phèdre
Alas, this black sorrowful sea below me! Alas, this pregnant nocturnal dismay! Alas, destiny and sea! To you I must now go down! Before my highest mountain I stand and before my longest wandering; to that end I must first go down deeper than ever I descended—deeper into pain than ever I descended, down into its blackest flood. Thus my destiny wants
... See moreI sunk upon the floor lifeless.