Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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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's Popular Quotes

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

The meaning is in the waiting.

- R. S. Thomas

Poetry is that / which arrives at the intellect / by way of the heart.

- R. S. Thomas

The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

- R. S. Thomas

I am a man now. Pass your hand over my brow. You can feel the place where the brains grow.

- R. S. Thomas

A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and movi…

- R. S. Thomas

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

- R. S. Thomas

The old men ask for more time; the young waste it. And the philosopher simply smiles, knowing there is none there.

- R. S. Thomas

Art is recuperation from time. I lie back convalescing upon the prospect of a harvest already at hand.

- R. S. Thomas