“The very impulse to write springs from an inner chaos crying for order - for meaning.”
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playwright from the United States 1915–2005Related quotes

“That is beautiful which is produced by the inner need, which springs from the soul.”
Source: Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Quoted in: Sunil Goonasekera (1991) George Keyt, Interpretations. p. 146
Talking about the means in painting
1910 - 1915, Concerning the Spiritual in Art, 1911

“We create order out of chaos, beauty and meaning out of ugly randomness.”
Source: The Throne of Fire

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 135
The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
Context: The Orderer, whose core issue is control, splits us into Controller and Out-of-Control selves, tells us "Don't Feel", and generates anxiety, rigidity, and addictions. The Orderer seduces us with the belief that order can be imposed from without, that the answer to chaos is more rigid order.
“The impulse to write a novel comes from a momentary unified vision of life.”
The Wild Garden (London: Secker & Warburg, 1963) p. 149.