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

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Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("Pissaro: Kitchen Garden, Trees in Bloom", p. 41), 1981.

R. S. Thomas

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“To argue that we humans are capable of complex multifarious thought and feeling, whereas the sheep's perception is probably limited by lowly sheepish perceptions, is no more to the point than if I were to slaughter and eat you on the grounds that I am a sophisticated personality able to enjoy Mozart, formal logic and cannibalism, whereas your imaginative world seems confined to True Romances and tinned spaghetti.”
“There is a particular quality of quietude and stillness that suffuses these painterly poems of Carol Ann Davis, so involved with loss, motherhood and the shifting tonalities of light that transform the domestic and ordinary into the strange and extraordinary that, combined with tenderness of address, approach the worshipful and make a number of these poems so moving and distinctive.”
“Many have become chess masters - no one has become the master of chess.”
“While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.”
“I feel like a semi-single mum.”
“While 9-5 and what happens on the job is important, what happens from 5-9, off the job, is infinitely more important.”
“Children must receive music instruction as naturally as food, with as much pleasure as they derive from a ball game, and this must happen from the beginning of their lives.”

Source : Leonard Bernstein (1982). “Findings”, Anchor
“Purity does not mean crushing the instincts but having the instincts as servants and not the master of the spirit.”

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