Roy Fuller Quotes

• It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.

  Roy Fuller

  Men, Messages, Vegetarian

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• Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.

  Roy Fuller

  Spiritual, Age, Barbarians

  Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd

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• The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

  Roy Fuller

  Time, Poet

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• Water inflated the belly
  Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley.
  Coleridge was a dope.
  Southwell died on a rope.

  Roy Fuller

  Dope, Water, Criticism

  Roy Fuller (1942). “The Middle of a War”

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• Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes
  The god inside the car

  Roy Fuller

  Pigs, Car, Identity

  Roy Fuller (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.89, Carcanet

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