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Quotes from The Penguin Book of Religious Verse — R. S. Thomas

1913–2000 United Kingdom

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The nearest we approach God…is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action.

The Penguin Book of Religious Verse (1963)

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