On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, "Who am I?", and the answer now came more emphatically than ever before, "No-one."
But a no-one with a crown of light about his head. He would remember a verse from Pindar: "Man is a dream about a shadow. But when some splendour falls upon him from God, a glory comes to him and his life is sweet."


Neb [No-one] (1985)

R. S. Thomas Quotes

On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, Who am...

On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, Who am...

On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, Who am...

On seeing his shadow fall on such ancient rocks, he had to question himself in a different context and ask the same old question as before, Who am...