Dylan Thomas

“And the whole pain flows open and I die.”

— Dylan Thomas

A good poem is a contribution to reality.

— Dylan Thomas

“There are always Uncles at Christmas.”

— Dylan Thomas

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

— Dylan Thomas

Cold beer is bottled God.

— Dylan Thomas

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.

— Dylan Thomas

Join the army and see the next world.

— Dylan Thomas

To begin, at the beginning...

— Dylan Thomas

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

— Dylan Thomas

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

— Dylan Thomas

“Teach me the love that is evergreen after the fall leaved/Grave”

— Dylan Thomas

And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!

— Dylan Thomas

“before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes.”

— Dylan Thomas

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.

— Dylan Thomas

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

— Dylan Thomas

“The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith”

— Dylan Thomas

“Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which / Shall fall awake when cures and their itch / Raise up this red-eyed earth?”

— Dylan Thomas

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a…

— Dylan Thomas

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on…

— Dylan Thomas

The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea…

— Dylan Thomas

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my…

— Dylan Thomas

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or…

— Dylan Thomas

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever…

— Dylan Thomas

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one…

— Dylan Thomas

I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the…

— Dylan Thomas

My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of…

— Dylan Thomas

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if…

— Dylan Thomas

I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are…

— Dylan Thomas

“Clown in the Moon" My tears are like the quiet drift Of petals from some magic rose; And all my grief flows…

— Dylan Thomas

“ Q: As a poet what distinguishes you, do you think, from an ordinary man? A: Only the use of the medium…

— Dylan Thomas

“All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our…

— Dylan Thomas

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are…

— Dylan Thomas

“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower" The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my…

— Dylan Thomas

Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and…

— Dylan Thomas

“The Hunchback in the Park The hunchback in the park A solitary mister Propped between trees and water From the opening of…

— Dylan Thomas

“December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeer. But there were cats. Patient, cold and callous, our…

— Dylan Thomas

“I have longed to move away From the hissing of the spent lie And the old terrors' continual cry Growing more terrible…

— Dylan Thomas

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty…

— Dylan Thomas

I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your…

— Dylan Thomas

“Poem in October" It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel…

— Dylan Thomas