"somewhere within sight of the tree of poetry that is eternity wearing the green leaves of time ."

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Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.423, Hachette UK

R. S. Thomas

#Sight Quotes #Tree Quotes #Green Quotes

“Actions are interesting to watch. I learn about the actors. Their movements are emblems of the tensions in this internal landscape, which their actions resolve. About-to-act is an interesting state to experience, because I am conscious of just those tensions. Acting itself feels fairly dull; it not only resolves, it obliterates those tensions from my consciousness. Acting is only interesting as it leads to new tensions that, irrelevantly, cause me to act again.”
“If you're designing out of a purely creative place, not thinking of the girl, then the consumer's not going to take notice.”
“The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion, and the tyranny of the dull mind forever threatens -- but our lives are not as limited as we think they are, all things are possible, laughter is holier than piety, freedom is sweeter than fame, and in the end it's love and love alone that really matters.”

Source : "Gracie goes to schooner school" by Tom Robbins, www.seattlepi.com. May 24, 2007.
“Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.”
“The Bread that we need each day to grow in eternal life, makes of our will a docile instrument of the Divine Will; sets the Kingdom of God within us; gives us pure lips, and a pure heart with which to glorify his holy name”
“All dust is the same dust. Temporarily separated To go peacefully And enjoy the eternal nap.”
“Like his admirer Samuel Beckett, Johnson locates his voices among conditions of such deprivation that even the most miserable memories are gilded by comparison: this paradox fuels equal parts of comedy and pathos. Never sentimental, at once corrosive and elegiac, House Mother Normal is a remarkable achievement.”
“A picture is like a prayer.”

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