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R. S. Thomas on Imagination

1913–2000 United Kingdom

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You have to imagine
a waiting that is not impatient
because it is timeless.

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.

Selected Prose (1995)

Blessings, Stevens;
I stand with my back to grammar
At an altar you never aspired
to, celebrating the sacrament
of the imagination whose high-priest
notwithstanding you are.

No Truce with the Furies (1995)

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