If a poet and a pious man should confer and exchange views, the poet would say: "All he lives, I say"; and the pious man would know: "All he says, I live.
If we feel we are in the grip of some kind of darkness — fear, disease, or temptation — we may need to get clearer on what light is. Divine Love, which shines on us and in us, is light that can't be put out and is never absent.