R.S. Thomas: Mind

R.S. Thomas was Welsh poet. Explore interesting quotes on mind.
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“Deliver me from the long drought
of the mind. Let leaves
from the deciduous Cross
fall on us, washing
us clean, turning our autumn
to gold by the affluence of their fountain.”

R.S. Thomas

"Prayer", p. 10
Laboratories of the Spirit (1975)

“I wouldn't say that I'm an orthodox Christian at all and the longer we live in the twentieth century the more fantastic discoveries are made, the more we hear what the universe is like I find it very difficult to be a kind of orthodox believer in Jesus as my saviour and that sort of thing. I'm more interested in the extraordinary nature of God. If there is God, if there is deity, then He, even as the old hymn says, He moves in a mysterious way and I'm fascinated by that mystery and I've tried to write out of that experience of God, the fantastic side of God, the quarrel between the conception of God as a person, as having a human side, and the conception of God as being so extraordinary. … So these are still things that occupy me, and every now and again, if you're lucky, you're able to make a poem out of this conception of God … so I suppose I'm trying to appeal to people to open their eyes and their minds to the extraordinary nature of God.”

R.S. Thomas

"R. S. Thomas in conversation with Molly Price-Owen" in The David Jones Journal R. S. Thomas Special Issue (Summer/Autumn 2001)

God , People , Way , Nature

“He arose, pacing the floor
Strewn with books, his mind big with the poem
Soon to be born, his nerves tense to endure
The long torture of delayed birth.”

R.S. Thomas

"A Person From Porlock"
Song at the Year's Turning (1955)

Books , Birth

“I have been Merlin wandering in the woods
Of a far country, where the winds waken
Unnatural voices, my mind broken
By a sudden acquaintance with man’s rage.”

R.S. Thomas

"Taliesin 1952"
Song at the Year's Turning (1955)

Rage , Country

“I have known exile and a wild passion
Of longing changing to a cold ache.
King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns,
Knowing the body’s sweetness, the mind’s treason;
Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen,
Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart’s need.”

R.S. Thomas

"Taliesin 1952"
Song at the Year's Turning (1955)

World , Beauty , Fools , Passion

“The deep spaces between stars,
Fathomless as the cold shadow
His mind cast.”

R.S. Thomas

"Wallace Stevens", p. 25
The Bread of Truth (1963)

Star

“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?”

R.S. Thomas

"Balance", p. 49
Frequencies (1978)

Failure , Time