Dylan Thomas Quotes

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

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I sang in my chains like the sea

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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.

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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.

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Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name.

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

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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.

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Man be my metaphor’,

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