Quotes
Authors
R. S. Thomas
"I had looked forward to old age as a time of quietness, a time to draw my horizons about me, to watch memories ripening in the sunlight of a walled garden. But there is the void over my head and the distance within that the tireless signals come from. And astronaut on impossible journeys to the far side of the self I return with messages I cannot decipher." --
Source : "Between Here and Now" by R. S. Thomas, ("The New Mariner", p. 99), 1981.
R. S. Thomas
#Memories Quotes
#Distance Quotes
#Journey Quotes
“Colleagues will malign you if you’re a moderately successful journalist,”
“On the other hand, I'm very tolerant as well. I expect that everybody can play what they want. I'm only not tolerant when it comes to myself and what is presented on my album that I have to listen to for the rest of my life.”
“I have a personality defect where I sort of refuse to see myself as an underdog... It's because of my parents. They raised me with the entitlement of a tall, blond, white man.”
“O it is pleasant, with a heart at ease, Just after sunset, or by moonlight skies, To make the shifting clouds be what you please.”
“I've been to Canada, and I've always gotten the impression that I could take the country over in about two days.”
“Whatever is unnamed, undepicted in images, whatever is omitted from biography, censored in collections of letters, whatever is misnamed as something else, made difficult-to-come-by, whatever is buried in the memory by the collapse of meaning under an inadequate or lying language - this will become, not merely unspoken, but unspeakable.”
“I said school starts tomorrow. I didn’t say I was going to be there.”
“Let the debate begin, let the rest of the world know that the iconic symbol of the United Kingdom may change”
Source : Speech at the House of Commons Debates on Union Flag (Government Buildings), www.publications.parliament.uk. November 26, 2007.