Dylan Thomas Quotes

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• Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
• When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
• An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
• I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
• My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
• Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
• Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it…
• The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
• Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are…
• I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development…
• Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
• The function of posterity is to look after itself.
• Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need…
• A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good…
• Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and…
• 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 of…
• I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation…
• I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.
• Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good…
• ... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

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