Dylan Thomas Quotes

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• A good poem is a contribution to reality.
• Do not go gentle into that good night.
• 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…
• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I…
• 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 tilted…
• A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.
• I do not remember-that is the point-the first impulse that pumped and shoved most of the earlier poems along, and they are still too near…
• I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here…
• Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.
• Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
• Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the…
• Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted,…
• I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the…
• The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.
• A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's…
• And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!
• I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.
• He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
• Though lovers be lost love shall not.
• Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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