Dylan Thomas Quotes - Page 4

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• Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

  Dylan Thomas

  Cities, Abstraction

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• 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 I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Thinking, Here I Am

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

  Dylan Thomas

  Writing, World, Today

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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• I sang in my chains like the sea

  Dylan Thomas

  Sea, Chains

  "Fern Hill" l. 52 (1946)

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• Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

  Dylan Thomas

  Dark, Light, Heaven

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• Rage, rage against the dying light

  Dylan Thomas

  Light, Dying, Rage

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

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• I have been told to reason by the heart,
  But heart, like head, leads helplessly;
  I have been told to reason by the pulse,
  And, when it quickens, alter the actions' pace

  Dylan Thomas

  Heart, Pulse, Pace

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!

  Dylan Thomas

  Blow, Waiting, Sin

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• I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Records, Famous Last Words

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• 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

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• A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.

  Dylan Thomas

  Drinking, Clothes, Alcohol

  Dylan Thomas (1967). “Selected letters”

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• The photograph is married to the eye,
  Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.

  Dylan Thomas

  Truth, Eye, Skins

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• 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 shoulder.

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  Nature, Clouds, October

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

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• 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 am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Flower, Roots

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

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• I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
  The code of night tapped on my tongue;
  What had been one was many sounding minded.

  Dylan Thomas

  Learning, Knowledge, Night

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• ... Rebel against the flesh and bone,
  The word of the blood, the wily skin,
  And the maggot no man can slay.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Men, Blood

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

  Dylan Thomas

  Business, Men, Hands

  'The hand that signed the paper felled a city' (1936)

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• 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 bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Conviction, Harsh

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

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• A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

  Dylan Thomas

  Humor, World, Comic

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.194, New Directions Publishing

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• Hands have not tears to flow.

  Dylan Thomas

  Hands, Tears, Flow

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• Friend, my enemy, I call you out. You, you, you there with a bad thorn in your side. You there, my friend, with a winning air. Who pawned the lie on me when he looked brassly at my shyest secret. With my whole heart under your hammer. That though I loved him for his faults as much as for his good. My friend were an enemy upon stilts with his head in a cunning cloud. -Dylan Thomas

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  Lying, Heart, Winning

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• Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Good Night, Men, Too Late

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

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• And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.

  Dylan Thomas

  Fall, Autumn, Rose

  "Poem in October" l. 14 (1946)

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• Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

  Dylan Thomas

  Baby, Garden, Garters

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 30

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• 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

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