To break out of the chaos of my darkness

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“To break out of the chaos of my darkness
Into a lucid day is all my will.
My words like eyes in night, stare to reach
A centre for their light: and my acts thrown
To distant places by impatient violence
Yet lock together to mould a path of stone
Out of my darkness into a lucid day.”

Extract from: The Still Centre, 1935

Stephen Spender

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