<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358654" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Room</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Through that window—all else being extinct <br>Except itself and me—I saw the struggle <br>Of darkness against darkness. Within the room <br>It turned and turned, dived downward. Then I saw <br>How order might—if chaos wished—become: <br>And saw the darkness crush upon itself, <br>Contracting powerfully; it was as if <br>It killed itself, slowly: and with much pain. <br>Pain. The scene was pain, and nothing but pain. <br>What else, when chaos draws all forces inward <br>To shape a single leaf? . . . <br> For the leaf came <br>Alone and shining in the empty room; <br>After a while the twig shot downward from it; <br>And from the twig a bough; and then the trunk, <br>Massive and coarse; and last the one black root. <br>The black root cracked the walls. Boughs burst <br> the window: <br>The great tree took possession. <br> Tree of trees! <br>Remember (when time comes) how chaos died <br>To shape the shining leaf. Then turn, have courage, <br>Wrap arms and roots together, be convulsed <br>With grief, and bring back chaos out of shape. <br>I will be watching then as I watch now. <br>I will praise darkness now, but then the leaf.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Conrad+Potter+Aiken">Conrad Potter Aiken</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=358654" data-title="The Room de Conrad Potter Aiken" data-description="Through that window—all else being extinct Except itself and me—I saw the struggle Of darkness against darkness. Within the room It turned and turned, dived downward. Then I saw How order might—if chaos wished—become: And saw the dark..."></div> </div> </div>

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