R.S. Thomas: Quotes about time

R.S. Thomas was Welsh poet. Explore interesting quotes on time.

R.S. Thomas: 116 quotes 0 likes

“They left no books,
Memorial to their lonely thought
In grey parishes: rather they wrote
On men's hearts and in the minds
Of young children sublime words
Too soon forgotten. God in his time
Or out of time will correct this.”

R.S. Thomas

"The Country Clergy"
Poetry For Supper (1958)

God , Time

“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.”

R.S. Thomas

"The New Mariner", p. 99
Between Here and Now (1981)

Age , Memory , Time , Drawing

“I have been all men known to history,
Wondering at the world and at time passing;
I have seen evil, and the light blessing
Innocent love under a spring sky.”

R.S. Thomas

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

Love , Men , World , History

“She is young. Have I the right
Even to name her? Child,
It is not love I offer
Your quick limbs, your eyes;
Only the barren homage
Of an old man whom time
Crucifies.”

R.S. Thomas

"The Dance"
Pietá (1966)

Love , Time

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

R.S. Thomas

"Prayer"
Later Poems (1983)

Tree , Time

“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

“Art is recuperation
from time. I lie back
convalescing upon the prospect
of a harvest already at hand.”

R.S. Thomas

"Pissaro: Kitchen Garden, Trees in Bloom", p. 41
Between Here and Now (1981)

Lie , Art , Time