Sunday, April 23, 2023

Native wisdom

I read somewhere of a shepherd who, when asked why he made, from within fairy rings, ritual observances to the moon to protect his flocks, replied: "I'd be a damn' fool if I didn't!' 

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't. 

    Dylan Thomas, Note in the front of 1952 edition of The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

 

 

 

 

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