“"Sunlight's a thing that needs a window
Before it enter a dark room.
Windows don't happen."
So two old poets,
Hunched at their beer in the low haze
Of an inn parlour, while the talk ran
Noisily by them, glib with prose.”

—  R.S. Thomas

"Poetry For Supper"
Poetry For Supper (1958)

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Welsh poet 1913–2000

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