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Quotes from Adamastor — Roy Campbell

1901–1957 South Africa

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The frost stings sweetly with a burning kiss
As intimate as love, as cold as death.

Adamastor (1930)

The timeless, surly patience of the serf
That moves the nearest to the naked earth
And ploughs down palaces, and thrones, and towers.

Adamastor (1930)

You praise the firm restraint with which they write –
I'm with you there, of course:
They use the snaffle and the curb all right,
But where's the bloody horse?

Adamastor (1930)

Of all the clever people round me here
I most delight in Me –
Mine is the only voice I care to hear,
And mine the only face I like to see.

Adamastor (1930)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roy Campbell (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.