R.S. Thomas Quotes
They had lived and known glory, and then they were ddead. She was alive and they were not, and nothing but a heartbeat separated her from them
The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.
This is why you shouldn’t hire your friends. It’s all nice and professional until the insubordination starts. She sighed.
You have to imaginea waiting that is not impatientbecause it is timeless.
Every poet... finds himself born in the midst of prose. He has to struggle from the littleness and obstruction of an actual world into the freedom and infinitude of an ideal.
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in Praise of God, and I'd be a damn fool if they weren't.
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.
Faith, he had learned that night in front of the flickering television, was most glorious when it was most untouched by reason.
A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I think maybe today a poem I hopeafter breakfast I start tryingpulling it out of my own gutmostly by force
Persecution is not an original feature in any religion but it is always the strongly marked feature of all religions established by law.
If you wish to stand and progress as you ought, hold yourself an exile and a pilgrim on the earth.
Authentic religion is not a theology test. It's a love test.
The excitable observer will pass judgement first and then make knowledge conform to judgement the prudent observer will first learn to know and then judge according to knowledge.
Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.
The success of my rule does not rely on my ability to recite obscure Latin verse.
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men!
True success is a silence inner process that can empower the mind, heart and soul through strong aspiration for great achievement.
(Quoted by Thomas Carlyle) The rude man requires only to see something going on. The man of more refinement must be made to feel. The man of complete refinement must be made to reflect.
But as we all know, rock ‘n’ roll will never die, and education too, as Henry Adams always sez, keeps going on forever.
The most important thing I can do for my children is to protect them and to teach them. After that, it's up to them to be and do their best in life.
When women are secret they are secret indeed and more often then not they only begin to be secret with the advent of a second lover.
Never apologize for how you feel. No one can control how they feel. The sun doesn’t apologize for being the sun. The rain doesn’t say sorry for falling. Feelings just are
The razor bumps and the stretch marks will let you know adulthood charges a fee.
Gabriel Oak: "It's time for you to fight your own battles... and win them too.
Art enables us to find ourselves and loose ourselves at the same time.
But the ground shakes, as if something's trying to push up from below, and I think of other people's mothers shaking out their duvets or even God shaking out the fabric of space-time.
Before, time held no meaning with him. Now it’s everything. Every second of my existence feels like it will be the last.
Thirty-five craters on the moon are named for Jesuit scientists and mathematicians.
Jesuits so dominated the study of earthquakes that seismology became known as 'the Jesuit Science.
It turns out to be the new Planet, which, a decade and a half later, will be known first as the Georgian, and then as Herschel, after its official Discoverer, and more lately as Uranus.
In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.
