Victorian poet Coventry Patmore offers this thought in his idiosyncratic mystical book The Rod, the Root, and the Flower (1895):
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.
Patmore was affiliated with the Pre-Raphaelites, alt…
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