Death Quote by Edward Thomas

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

— Edward Thomas

If I should ever by chance grow richI'll buy Codham, Cockridden, and Childerditch,Roses, Pyrgo, and Lapwater,And let them all to my eldest daughter.

— Edward Thomas

To-day I think Only with scents, - scents dead leaves yield, And bracken, and wild carrot's seed, And the square mustard field; Odours that…

— Edward Thomas

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her…

— Edward Thomas

“If he [Pound] is not careful he will take to meaning what he says instead of saying what he means.”

— Edward Thomas

“Tall Nettles Tall nettles cover up, as they have done These many springs, the rusty harrow, the plough Long worn out, and the roller…

— Edward Thomas

“You English words? I know you: You are light as dreams, Tough as oak, Precious as gold, As poppies and corn, Or an old…

— Edward Thomas

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being…

— Edward Thomas

“Rain, midnight rain, nothing but the wild rain On this bleak hut, and solitude, and me Remembering again that I shall die And neither…

— Edward Thomas

Yes; I remember Adlestrop- The name, because one afternoon Of heat the express-train drew up there Unwontedly. It was late June.

— Edward Thomas

Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass,…

— Edward Thomas

I built myself a house of glass:It took me years to make it:And I was proud. But now, alas!Would God someone would break it.

— Edward Thomas