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• To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spring, Night, Black

  Under Milk Wood (1954)

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

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  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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• I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

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  Thinking, Way, Made

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• Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• 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 labour put into the creation of the poetry.

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  Vision, Naked, Movement

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.119, New Directions Publishing

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• ... 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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  Sea, Long, Lovely

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• 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. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Race

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• Come on up, boys -I'm dead.

  Dylan Thomas

  Boys

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• Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

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  Moon, Men, Wind

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• Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

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  Sweet, Lying, Reading

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

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  Sleep, Darkness, Holy

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

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• My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

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  Education, Reading, Eye

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• My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

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  Names, Water, Bird

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• A good poem is a contribution to reality.

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  Reality, Contribution

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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• The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

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  Sex, Lying, Sea

  Dylan Thomas (1975). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”

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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

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  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• 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 question.

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  Dream, New York, Believe

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• 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 and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

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  Writing, Angel, Self

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• 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 rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

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  Wall, Beer, Glasses

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.

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  Vanity, Upset, Ordinary

  Dylan Thomas, Paul Ferris (1985). “The collected letters”, Scribner

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• The moment of a miracle is unending lightning.

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  Miracle, Lightning, Moments

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• Especially when the October wind With frosty fingers punishes my hair, Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire And cast a shadow crab upon the land, By the sea's side, hearing the noise of birds, Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks, My busy heart who shudders as she talks Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.

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  Heart, Winter, Fire

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.116, New Directions Publishing

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• Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

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  Life, Thank God, Garters

  'Under Milk Wood' (1954) p. 30

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• To begin, at the beginning.

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  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 1

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• After the first death, there is no other.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Death, Firsts

  A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" l. 19 (1946)

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