Imaginative Truth Quotes by R. S. Thomas

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R. S. Thomas has 9 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• The furies are at home in the mirror; it is their address. Even the clearest water, if deep enough can drown. Never…
• 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…
• 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…
• A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity,…
• 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.

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