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R. S. Thomas on Anniversary

1913–2000 United Kingdom

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6 quotes

The darkness
is the deepening shadow
of your presence; the silence a
process in the metabolism
of the being of love.

Laboratories of the Spirit (1975)

Life is not hurrying
on to a receding future, nor hankering after
an imagined past. It is the turning
aside like Moses to the miracle
of the lit bush, to a brightness
that seemed as transitory as your youth
once, but is the eternity that awaits you.

Laboratories of the Spirit (1975)

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?

Frequencies (1978)

Was he balked by silence? He kneeled long,
And saw love in a dark crown
Of thorns blazing, and a winter tree
Golden with fruit of a man's body.

Song at the Year's Turning (1955)

somewhere within sight
of the tree of poetry
that is eternity wearing
the green leaves of time.

She is young. Have I the right
Even to name her? Child,
It is not love I offer
Your quick limbs, your eyes;
Only the barren homage
Of an old man whom time
Crucifies.

Pietá (1966)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: R. S. Thomas (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.