R.S. Thomas: `More Than Enough'

R.S. Thomas, the Welsh poet-priest, would have celebrated his 94th birthday today. A flinty, difficult man and writer, he was born in Cardiff on March 29, 1913. He retired from the church in 1978, and died on Sept. 25, 2000. This excerpt is drawn from his 1990 collection Counterpoint:

“I think that maybe
I will be a little surer
of being a little nearer.
That’s all. Eternity
is in the understanding
that that little is more than enough.”