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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.

    Stephen Spender (1966). “World Within World: The Autobiography of Stephen Spender”, p.5, Univ of California Press