“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body’s sweetness, the mind ’s treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart ’s need .”

“I have known exile and a wild passion Of longing changing to a cold ache. King, beggar and fool, I have been all by turns, Knowing the body’s sweetness, the mind ’s treason ; Taliesin still, I show you a new world, risen, Stubborn with beauty, out of the heart ’s need .”

— R. S. Thomas