Poetry Quotes by Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

— Caitlin Thomas

Sex divorced from love is the thief of personal dignity.

— Caitlin Thomas

The wretched Artist himself is alternatively the lowest worm that ever crawled when no fire is in him; or the loftiest God that ever…

— Caitlin Thomas

there is no gaiety as gay as the gaiety of grief.

— Caitlin Thomas

When the desire is on for one particular person, nobody else will do.

— Caitlin Thomas

There is nothing harder for an Artist than to retain his Artistic integrity in the tomb of success. A tomb, nevertheless, which nearly every…

— Caitlin Thomas

anybody who drinks seriously is poor: so poor, poor, extra poor, me.

— Caitlin Thomas

There is, happily, no limit to the faith of human nature in believing what it wants to believe.

— Caitlin Thomas

resignation, perhaps the most stifling word in the language.

— Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] ... however lyingly libellous they may be: nobody can seriously hurt the reputation of a Great person. If he is hurt: he…

— Caitlin Thomas

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

— Caitlin Thomas

There is a brotherliness about a drinking person, which is coldly lacking in the straight and narrow enemies of drink; the difference between the…

— Caitlin Thomas