"Is there a place here for the spirit ? Is there time on this brief platform for anything other than mind 's failure to explain itself?"

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Source : R.S. Thomas (2012). “Collected Poems: 1945-1990 R.S.Thomas: Collected Poems : R S Thomas”, p.355, Hachette UK

R. S. Thomas

#Mind Quotes #Spirit Quotes #Platforms Quotes

“There is really quite an inherent danger in the traditional British view that the council of ministers and inter-governmentalism is your protection against the federalist superstate.”
“The Church must stop expecting outsiders to act like insiders while insiders act like outsiders.”
“I had a great education. From kindergarten to John Dewey High School in Coney Island, I am public-school educated.”
“On the Upper East Side, women are prisoners to the ideology of intensive motherhood, which is that you should be enriching your child's well-being on every measure you possibly can at every moment. So when your kid is sitting down playing with Legos, intensive motherhood dictates that you should be engaging with him or her somehow, praising, questioning, making it into a learning opportunity. It's not enough to just tell your child, "Do your homework." It's not enough to help with the homework. You go to the school and learn how they do math, so that you can tutor your child in math.”
“Do we really know anybody? Who does not wear one face to hide another?”
“New eras don't come about because of swords, they're created by the people who wield them.”

Source : "Fictional character: Kenshin Himura". "Rurouni Kenshin: Wandering Samurai", www.imdb.com. 1996 - 1999.
“A secret at home is like rocks under tide.”
“Let your soul lead the way, cause I'm that enemy that you can't see.”

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