Dylan Thomas Quotes - Page 3

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• The closer I move
  To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
  The louder the sun blooms
  And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.

  Dylan Thomas

  Moving, Men, Sea

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.185, New Directions Publishing

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• It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

  Dylan Thomas

  Christmas, Brother, Sibling

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, New Directions Publishing

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• If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.

  Dylan Thomas

  Laughing, Let It Go, Definitions

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

  Dylan Thomas

  Death, Good Night, Dying

  Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”

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• These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.

  Dylan Thomas

  Dream, Men, Breathe

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.119, New Directions Publishing

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• Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

  Dylan Thomas

  Would Be, States, Ifs

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.98, New Directions Publishing

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• The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.

  Dylan Thomas

  Texture, Moments, Intensity

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.60, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.

  Dylan Thomas

  Two, Intellectual, Together

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• Oh, I'm a martyr to music.

  Dylan Thomas

  Music, Musician, Martyr

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.52, New Directions Publishing

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• It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Struggle, Light

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• And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

  Dylan Thomas

  Book, Wasps

  Dylan Thomas, “A Child's Christmas In Wales”

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• [I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

  Dylan Thomas

  Freak, Poet, Users

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

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• Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spring, Bulbs, Doom

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.37, New Directions Publishing

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• Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

  Dylan Thomas

  Time, Artist, Talking

  Quite Early One Morning (1954) pt. 2 "Wales and the Artist"

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• Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?

  Dylan Thomas

  Hands, Sorrow, Bed

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• I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.

  Dylan Thomas

  Believe, Records, Whiskey

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• And death shall have no dominion. Under the windings of the sea They lying long shall not die windily; Twisting on racks when sinews give way, Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break; Faith in their hands shall snap in two, And the unicorn evils run them through; Split all ends up they shan't crack; And death shall have no dominion.

  Dylan Thomas

  Running, Lying, Hands

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Muertes Y Entradas [1934-1953]: Antología Poética”, p.88, HUERGA Y FIERRO EDITORES

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• Out of the sighs a little comes,
  But not of grief, for I have knocked down that
  Before the agony; the spirit grows,
  Forgets, and cries;
  A little comes, is tasted and found good.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Grief, Agony

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• 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, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain.

  Dylan Thomas

  Reading, Cat, Bags

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• 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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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

  Dylan Thomas

  Flower, Color, Age

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

  Dylan Thomas

  Artist

  'Quite Early One Morning' (1954) pt. 2 'Wales and the Artist'

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• Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle.

  Dylan Thomas

  Poetry, Toenails, Poetry Is

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

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• The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

  Dylan Thomas

  Father, Land

  On Wales, in 'Adam' December 1953

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• 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 night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Good Night, Wise, Dark

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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