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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.

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
Men, Messages, Vegetarian

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
Spiritual, Age, Barbarians
Alfred Alvarez, Roy Broadbent Fuller, Anthony Thwaite (1970). “A. Álvarez, Roy Fuller, Anthony Thwaite”, Penguin Books Ltd

The poets get a quizzical ahem. They reflect time, I am the very ticking.

Roy Fuller
Time, Poet

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

Roy Fuller
Dope, Water, Criticism
Roy Fuller (1942). “The Middle of a War”

Strangely, it is the pig himself becomes The god inside the car

Roy Fuller
Pigs, Car, Identity
Roy Fuller (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.89, Carcanet

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