Dylan Thomas Quotes

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  • 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 (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, New Directions Publishing
  • Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

    Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner
  • I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

  • I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

    Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.113, New Directions Publishing
  • Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

  • Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

    Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner
  • 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, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner
  • Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.55, New Directions Publishing
  • 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.

    Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.122, New Directions Publishing
  • I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

  • Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

  • Hands have not tears to flow.

  • And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.

    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.92, New Directions Publishing
  • Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

    25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9
  • The moment of a miracle is unending lightning.

    Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.135, New Directions Publishing
  • Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

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

  • This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl and curling round the bud that forks her eye.

    Song: If I Were Tickled by the Rub of Love
  • 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, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.61, New Directions Publishing
  • Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

    'Under Milk Wood' (1954) p. 30
  • I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.

  • The function of posterity is to look after itself.

  • Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.

    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.116, New Directions Publishing
  • A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.

    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.205, New Directions Publishing
  • I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

    Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.94, New Directions Publishing
  • ... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

  • I have been told to reason by the heart, But heart, like head, leads helplessly; I have been told to reason by the pulse, And, when it quickens, alter the actions' pace

    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.136, New Directions Publishing
  • Do not go gentle into that good night.

    "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)
  • And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days.

    Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.79, New Directions Publishing
  • He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

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