“My wisdom is as spurned as chaos. What is my nothingness, compared to the amazement that awaits you?”
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Arthur Rimbaud 66
French Decadent and Symbolist poet 1854–1891Related quotes
“The world is chaos. Nothingness is the yet-to-be-born god of the world.”
Act IV
Dantons Tod (Danton's Death) (1835)
“Why are you here? My city is in chaos because of you!”
The Unknown Rebel http://www.time.com/time/time100/leaders/profile/rebel.html Time profile. Retrieved January 10, 2006.
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Cameo appearance as himself in Woody Allen's 1977 film Annie Hall
1970s
“To break out of the chaos of my darkness
Into a lucid day is all my will.”
"Darkness And Light"
The Still Centre (1939)
Context: 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.
From the poem I Hear an Army http://www.bartleby.com/103/128.html
As quoted in "Envy, Lust and Gluttony - The Perfect Recipe" by Jane Warren in Daily Express http://www.dailyexpress.co.uk/posts/view/19663/Envy,-lust-and-gluttony---the-perfect-recipe (20 September 2007)
Letter to George Devine (10 March 1964), printed in Kenneth Tynan : A Life by Dominic Shellard<!-- Yale University Press, 2003, --> , p. 292
Context: I believe in neither a director’s nor a writer’s theatre, but a theatre of intelligent audiences. I count myself as a member of an intelligent audience, and I wrote to you as such. That you should disagree with me I can understand, but that you should resent my expressing my opinions is something that frankly amazes me. I thought we had outgrown the idea of theatre as a mystic rite born of secret communion between author, director, actors and an empty auditorium.