Dylan Thomas Quotes

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• 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;…
• After the first death, there is no other.
• A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the…
• Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think.
• Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?
• Join the army and see the next world.
• I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it…
• Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
• There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.
• 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…
• It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.
• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.
• Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
• But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.
• You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes.…
• 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 that…
• Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.
• Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.
• I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.
• I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

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