R. S. Thomas Quotes
Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
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It seems to me that in literature, books have always been answers to other books.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.
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Bands develop their own weird ways of doing things.
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Many people in this world are still so identified with every thought that arises in their head. There is not the slightest space of awareness there.
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It's quite absurd to act against a smoke creature that is not there.
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Focus on remedies, not faults.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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I'm not the type to get ulcers. I give them.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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I think Karl Rove saw that in George W. Bush early on and understood the impact that he could have on Texas politics and probably on national politics.
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To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love, occurs in such a way that it is truly the creature that provides the response, with its own nature and its natural powers of love.
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Wherever the bishop appears, there let the people be, even as wheresoever Christ Jesus is, there is the catholic church.
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A funny thing happens in real estate. When it comes back, it comes back up like gangbusters.
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London has the advantage of one of the most gloomy atmospheres in the world.
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People have to see play as more important than what it currently is. We don't want to get boxed into thinking play only happens on a playground. The best type of play is all kinds of play.
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We learn so much about the world by what we take in through movies and TV and books - we learn who's worthy of having their story told.
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When the world changes, it stashes us away where we can't make it run the other way again.
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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And, when night Darkens the streets, then wander forth the sons Of Belial, flown with insolence and wine.
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Now the power of the imagination is a unifying power, hence the force of metaphor; and the poet is the supreme manipulator of metaphor... the world needs the unifying power of the imagination. The two things that give it best are poetry and religion.
