R. S. Thomas - Shadow Quotes

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

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The darkness
is the deepening shadow
of your presence; the silence a
process in the metabolism
of the being of love.

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Sometimes a strange light
shines, purer than the moon,
casting no shadow, that is
the halo upon the bones
of the pioneers who died for truth.

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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."

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