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> [“Good and bad, two ways Of moving about your death By the grinding sea, King of your heart in the blind days, Blow away like breath, Go crying through you and me And the souls of all men Into the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/good-and-bad-two-ways-of-moving-about-your-death-by-the-grinding-sea/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

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## More by 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 glass, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/i-liked-the-taste-of-beer-its-live-white-lather-its-brass-bright/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/there-is-only-one-position-for-an-artist-anywhere-and-that-is-upright/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [“Thousands of miles,' I said. It's Rhosilli, USA. We're going to camp on a bit of rock that wobbles in the winds.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/thousands-of-miles-i-said-it-s-rhosilli-usa-we-re-going-to-camp-on-a/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/one-christmas-was-so-much-like-another-in-those-years-around-the-sea/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/i-hold-a-beast-an-angel-and-a-madman-in-me-and-my-enquiry-is-as-to/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/youth-calls-to-age-across-the-tired-years-what-have-you-found-he/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [Do not go gentle into that goodnight, rage, rage against the dying of the light.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/do-not-go-gentle-into-that-goodnight-rage-rage-against-the-dying-of/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [To begin, at the beginning...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/to-begin-at-the-beginning/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/a-born-writer-is-born-scrofulous-his-career-is-an-accident-dictated/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/rhianon-he-said-hold-my-hand-rhianon-she-did-not-hear-him-but-stood/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/i-know-in-london-a-welsh-hairdresser-who-has-striven-so-vehemently-to/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/dark-is-a-way-and-light-is-a-place-heaven-that-never-was-nor-will-be/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/and-now-gentlemen-like-your-manners-i-must-leave-you/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

> [Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/now-behind-the-eyes-and-secrets-of-the-dreamers-in-the-streets-rocked/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 dare ask…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dylan-thomas/i-believe-in-new-yorkers-whether-they-ve-ever-questioned-the-dream-in/)

[Dylan Thomas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dylan-thomas/)

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