"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed The speculating rooks at their nests cawed And saw from elm tops, delicate as flower of grass, What we below could not see, Winter pass."

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Source : Edward Thomas (1997). “Poems”, p.16, Imperial War Museum

Edward Thomas

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“In truth, making films doesn't feel like hard work because I always have such a good time doing it.”
“When I am halfway there with a painting, it can occasionally be thrilling... But it happens very rarely; usually it's agony... I go to great pains to mask the agony. But the struggle is there. It's the invisible enemy.”
“There's always a voice inside your head, and a lot of people second guess it. It can tell me very crazy things, but I will walk willingly into its arms.”
“I was a commie and I fought about Marxism and class and race and it informed everything I did.”

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“And if we can accept that a mother can kill her own child, how can we tell other people not to kill one another?”
“There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.”
“... the human body is much stronger than we think. It seems to laugh at the cobwebs of despair that the heart weaves before our eyes in order to blind us to our fate. The body walks and goes on walking.”
“Other countries have their history. Uruguay has its football.”

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