<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459764" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rembrandt's Darkness, Rembrandt's Light</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Here’s a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn –<br>mark how he bestows the light…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the light of Rembrandt’s conscious painted scenes<br>falls where consciousness itself shines strongest: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">here on a thinking head, deep<br>in contemplation of the truth invisible; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">here on a melting heart; there, <br>on a pregnant belly full of life; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">on this marriage bed, her body<br>dissolves into the light of love; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">here, the golden helmet and the breastplate<br>say, heroism has descended on mere man.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But mark, too, that other miracle: <br>see in this corner, the area of black paint: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is not darkness; not negation of the light; <br>this is what cannot comprehend the light; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is the darkness of the unmanifest, <br>from which all miracles shall in time arise: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">this is the black paint stroked on the canvas<br>by the same dazzling intelligence<br>which was Rembrandt; the light<br>yet stored in darkness; what would that light<br>of things seen, be, without the mind<br>that understood and marked the not yet lit? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The secret of that darkness fills<br>with a brightness that's more beautiful than beauty, <br>the mind that knows to shut its mortal eyes.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=459764" data-title="Rembrandt's Darkness, Rembrandt's Light de Michael Shepherd" data-description="Here’s a painting by Rembrandt van Rijn – mark how he bestows the light… the light of Rembrandt’s conscious painted scenes falls where consciousness itself shines strongest: here on a thinking head, deep in contemplation of the truth in..."></div> </div> </div>

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