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• I'm obviously not orthodox, I don't know how many real poets have ever been orthodox.

  R. S. Thomas

  Real, Poet, Orthodox

  "R. S. Thomas in conversation with Molly Price-Owen". The David Jones Journal, 2001.

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• We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

  R. S. Thomas

  Hands, Adults, World

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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

  R. S. Thomas

  Silence, Darkness, Shadow

  "Laboratories of the Spirit" by R. S. Thomas, ("Alive", p. 51), 1975.

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• 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.

  R. S. Thomas

  Two, Giving, Imagination

  "Selected Prose" by R. S. Thomas, (p. 131), 1995.

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• Deliver me from the long drought
  of the mind. Let leaves
  from the deciduous Cross
  fall on us, washing
  us clean, turning our autumn
  to gold by the affluence of their fountain.

  R. S. Thomas

  Fall, Autumn, Long

  "Laboratories of the Spirit" by R. S. Thomas, ("Prayer", p. 10), 1975.

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• I have nowhere to go. The swift satellites show The clock of my whole being is slow.

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  Nowhere To Go, Clock, Satellites

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.62, Hachette UK

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• The deep spaces between stars , Fathomless as the cold shadow His mind cast.

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  Stars, Space, Mind

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.132, Hachette UK

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• Natural, hell! What was it Chaucer Said once about the long toil that goes like blood to the poems making? Leave it to nature and the verse sprawls, Limp as bindweed, if it break at all Life's iron crust Man, you must sweat And rhyme your guts taut, if you'd build Your verse a ladder.

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  Men, Blood, Sweat

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.85, Hachette UK

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• In the silence
  that is his chosen medium
  of communication and telling
  others about it
  in words. Is there no way
  not to be the sport
  of reason?

  R. S. Thomas

  Sports, Communication, Silence

  "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.

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• I have been Merlin wandering in the woods Of a far country, where the winds waken Unnatural voices , my mind broken By a sudden acquaintance with man's rage.

  R. S. Thomas

  Country, Men, Wind

  "Song at the Year's Turning : Poems, 1942-1954". Book by R. S. Thomas, 1955.

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• They left no books , Memorial to their lonely thought In grey parishes: rather they wrote On men's hearts and in the minds Of young children sublime words Too soon forgotten. God in his time Or out of time will correct this.

  R. S. Thomas

  Lonely, Children, Book

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• You cannot find the centre Where we dance , where we play, Where life is still asleep Under the closed flower , Under the smooth shell Of eggs in the cupped nest That mock the faded blue Of your remoter heaven .

  R. S. Thomas

  Flower, Blue, Play

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.57, Hachette UK

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• It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt.

  R. S. Thomas

  Hurt, Heart, Too Late

  R.S. Thomas (2012). “R. S. Thomas: Everyman Poetry: Everyman's Poetry”, p.62, Hachette UK

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