Roy Fuller quotes

“It is man who has fallen, not the beasts: that is the message even for the irreligious, and to some extent salvation can be measured by his very treatment of them.”
-- Roy Fuller

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“Anyone happy in this age and place Is daft or corrupt. Better to abdicate From a material and spiritual terrain Fit only for barbarians.”
-- Roy Fuller

Source : Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd

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“Water inflated the belly Of Hart Crane, and of Shelley. Coleridge was a dope. Southwell died on a rope.”
-- Roy Fuller

Source : Roy Fuller (1942). “The Middle of a War”

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“The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.”
-- Roy Fuller

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“Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes The god inside the car”
-- Roy Fuller

Source : Roy Fuller (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.89, Carcanet

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“I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.”

Source : A. B. Simpson (1987). “Missionary Messages: For a Church that Needs to Hear”, p.23, Moody Publishers

“Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.”

Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.43, Courier Corporation

“When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, `Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away; Give pearls away and rubies But keep your fancy free.' But I was one-and-twenty No use to talk to me. When I was one-and-twenty I heard him say again, `The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue.' And I am two-and-twenty And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.”

“I knew if I ate anything of hers again, it would lkely tell me the same message: help me, I am not happy, help me -- like a message in a bottle sent in each meal to the eater, and I got it. I got the message.”

“What gets posted online is not short term, and is open for easy misinterpretation. Messages and pictures spread faster through the Internet than they ever could by word of mouth.”

Source : "Confronting Cyber Violence in the Digital Age" by Anna Maria Chavez, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2013.

“Economy forced me to become a vegetarian, but I finally starting liking it.”

“For the gentle werelibrarian, who's strictly vegetarian, there's nothing like Tofillager the MEATLESS TOFU VILLAGER”

“Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.”

“I grow vegetables - I'm a vegetarian; I've got strawberries, artichokes, leeks, broad beans.”

Source : "Lady Rolling Stone". Interview with Lynn Barber, www.theguardian.com. February 24, 2008.

“Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”