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R S Thomas Inspirational Quotes (48)

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You have to imagine a waiting that is not impatient because it is timeless.
R. S. Thomas
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Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.
R. S. Thomas
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The old men ask for more time the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.
R. S. Thomas
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I need them and they need me to need them
Rosie Thomas
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I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet.
R. S. Thomas
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Even God had a Welsh name : He spoke to him in the old language He was to have a peculiar care For the Welsh people. History showed us He was too big to be nailed to the wall Of a stone chapel, yet still we crammed him Between the boards of a black book .
R. S. Thomas
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It's a noir world. Unfair things happen.
Rob Thomas
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People think that we're crazy because we do six nights a week. I would physically not be able to take it, especially when you see how much he put into every show... He created this larger than life style and he pulled it off.
Rob Thomas
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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 to gold by the affluence of their fountain.
R. S. Thomas
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Sunlight 's a thing that needs a window Before it enter a dark room. Windows don't happen. So two old poets, Hunched at their beer in the low haze Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran Noisily by them, glib with prose.
R. S. Thomas
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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 sweet.
R. S. Thomas
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I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.
R. S. Thomas
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Let her be with her memories. Better that than be aware of this reality.
Rosie Thomas
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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 Innocent love under a spring sky.
R. S. Thomas
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I will continue my path, but I will keep a memory always.
Rosie Thomas
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Is nothing in life ever straight and clear, the way children see it?
Rosie Thomas
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There are some singer-songwriters who start out as poets. So someone like Leonard Cohen wrote and published poetry in the early 60s, but then started writing songs. Bob Dylan's a poet in the sense of bard, aoidos or vates.
Richard F. Thomas
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The dead and not-yet dead, we are company all together.
Rosie Thomas
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The meaning is in the waiting.
R. S. Thomas
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I turn now not to the Bible but to Wallace Stevens.
R. S. Thomas
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I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool , I have been all by turns, Knowing the body's sweetness, the mind 's treason Taliesin still, I show you a new world , risen, Stubborn with beauty , out of the heart 's need .
R. S. Thomas
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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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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 world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
R. S. Thomas
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Bob Dylan tells interviewers what he wants to tell them, not what they necessarily want to know. His responses are really part of the art, and often have a relationship to the songs that have just come out or are about to come out.
Richard F. Thomas
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