We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and … - R. S. Thomas - Quotesmemo.com

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R. S. Thomas

We live in our own world , A world that is too small For you to stoop and enter Even on hands and knees, The adult subterfuge.

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Poetry is that
which arrives at the intellect
by way of the heart.

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To live in Wales is to be conscious at dusk of the spilled blood that went into the making of the wild sky

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The meaning is in the waiting.

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The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.

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Ah, what balance is needed at the edges of such an abyss. I am left alone on the surface of a turning planet. What to do but, like Michelangelo 's Adam, put my hand out into unknown space, hoping for the reciprocating touch?

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