Failure Quote 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 explain itself?”

R. S. Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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God's love never fail :)

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“Our failure to understand another being's inner reality doesn't make that reality any less real, or any less valuable to that being. (p.255)”

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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