--- title: "4 R.S. Thomas Quotes - Famous Poet" description: "Welsh poet (1913–2000)... | Ronald Stuart Thomas, published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality an..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/r-s-thomas-2-67589_journey_no-through-road-all-in-vain-i-will-cease_135197.jpg" --- # R.S. Thomas (1913–2000) Poet **4** quotes in **14** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet R.S. Thomas was a poet. ## Quick Facts About R.S. Thomas Born March 29, 1913 Died September 25, 2000 Profession Poet ## About R.S. Thomas Welsh poet (1913–2000)... \| Ronald Stuart Thomas, published as R. S. Thomas, was a Welsh poet and Anglican priest noted for nationalism, spirituality and dislike of the anglicisation of Wales. John Betjeman, introducing Song at the Year's Turning (1955), the first collection of Thomas's poetry from a major publisher, predicted ## Quotes by R.S. Thomas > [“ No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-s-thomas-2/no-through-road-all-in-vain-i-will-cease-now-my-long-absorption-with/) R.S. Thomas [Journey](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/journey/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce7/r-s-thomas-2-67589_journey_no-through-road-all-in-vain-i-will-cease_135197.jpg) > [“ Children's Song We live in our own world, A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-s-thomas-2/children-s-song-we-live-in-our-own-world-a-world-that-is-too-small/) R.S. Thomas [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a72/r-s-thomas-2-67589_children_children-s-song-we-live-in-our-own-world_332432.jpg) > [“Seated at table - no need for the fracture of the room's silence; noiselessly they conversed.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-s-thomas-2/seated-at-table-no-need-for-the-fracture-of-the-room-s-silence/) R.S. Thomas [Poetry](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/poetry/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a02/r-s-thomas-2-67589_poetry_seated-at-table-no-need-for-the-fracture_343524.jpg) > [“To all light things I compared her: to a snowflake, a feather”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/r-s-thomas-2/to-all-light-things-i-compared-her-to-a-snowflake-a-feather/) R.S. Thomas [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98a/r-s-thomas-2-67589_parenting_to-all-light-things-i-compared-her-to-a_941400.jpg) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/r-s-thomas-2/#itemlist", "name": "R.S. Thomas Quotes", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“ No Through Road All in vain, I will cease now My long absorption with the plough, With the tame and the wild creatures And man united with the earth. I have failed after many seasons To bring truth to birth, And nature's simple equations In the mind's precincts do not apply. But where to turn? Earth endures After the passing, necessary shame Of winter, and the old lie Of green places beckons me still From the new world, ugly and evil, That men pry for in truth's name.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "R.S. 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