R. S. Thomas Quotes
- The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never think to surprise…
- Imaginative truth is the most immediate way of presenting ultimate reality to a human being... ultimate reality is what we call God.
- Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the…
- I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.
- Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is…
- A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple…
- The meaning is in the waiting,
- The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
- Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.