Poetry Quotes by R. S. Thomas

Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to…

— R. S. Thomas

Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor...…

— R. S. Thomas

The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

— R. S. Thomas

To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky

— R. S. Thomas

Deliver me from the long drought of the mind. Let leaves from the deciduous Cross fall on us, washing us clean, turning our autumn…

— R. S. Thomas

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

— R. S. Thomas

I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

— R. S. Thomas

I have been all men known to history, Wondering at the world and at time passing; I have seen evil, and the light blessing…

— R. S. Thomas

I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

— R. S. Thomas

I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.

— R. S. Thomas

Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.

— R. S. Thomas

I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.

— R. S. Thomas

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

— R. S. Thomas

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

— R. S. Thomas

Verse should be as natural As the small tuber that feeds on muck And grows slowly from obtuse soil To the white flower of…

— R. S. Thomas