Dylan Thomas Quotes About Sleep

Quotes about: Sleep

• I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sleep, Darkness, Holy

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

• 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 the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sleep, Night, Years

  A Child's Christmas in Wales (1954) p. 5

• Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sleep, Two, Salt

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

• 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 buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Sleep, Eye

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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