For we wrestle, not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
—EPHESIANS, 6:12
BELINDA: Ay, but you know we must return good for evil. LADY BRUTE: That may be a mistake in the translation.
—SIR JOHN VANBRUGH
The Provoked Wife
Dark, dark my light, and darker my desire, My Soul, like some heat-maddened summer fly, Keeps buzzing at the sill. Which I is I?
—THEODORE ROETHKE
In a Dark Time