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Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Death Lost Love Love Mourning

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Companions Earthy Hope Innocence Love Optimism Partnership

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Euphemism Love Naughty Poem Sex Shipwreck Thighs

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Death And Dying Inspirational Philosophy Poetry

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Alcoholic Definitions Humor Substance Abuse

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay, Rage, rage against the dying of the light.And you, my father, there on the sad height, Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray. Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Death Dying Father Poems

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Art Poetry Writing

Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Poetry

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Agatha Christie Poetry Reading

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

Dylan Thomas Dylan Thomas Poetry

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Obscurity Pain Poetry Suffering

On No Work of WordsOn no work of words now for three lean months in the bloodyBelly of the rich year and the big purse of my bodyI bitterly take to task my poverty and craft:To take to give is all, return what is hungrily givenPuffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven,The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft.To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing deathThat will rake at last all currencies of the marked breathAnd count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark.To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice.Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seasIf I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Life Poetry Reciprocity Writer S Block

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Curiosity Education Liberty Reading Time

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, Would you like anything to read?

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Books Humour

Do not go gentle into that good night.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Death Family Matched Political

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Childhood Children Christmas Fight Snow Snowman Tea

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Enemies Friends

Man be my metaphor’

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Man Men

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Love Lovers

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Death Rhianon Sorrow The Visitor

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Cats Christmas December Snow

Come on up, boys-I'm dead.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Drama Poetry Radio

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time with my eyes hanging out.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Books Reading

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Boring Days

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Death Dying

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas History Historians

Hands have not tears to flow.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Passion Heart

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Poets Poetry

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Self Reliance

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Lost Lovers Lost Love

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Boredom Rest He

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Joy Language Words

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Good Light Good Night

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Fire Bridges Nice

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.

~ Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Love Myself Words
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