Dylan Thomas Quotes - Page 6

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• In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.

  Dylan Thomas

  Art, Lying, Grief

  In My Craft or Sullen Art" l. 17 (1946)

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• In the beginning was the secret brain.
  The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

  Dylan Thomas

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Secret

  Dylan Thomas (2010). “The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

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• Let the dry eyes perceive
  Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
  By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.

  Dylan Thomas

  Lying, Eye, Loss

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.90, New Directions Publishing

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• Shall I let in the stranger,
  Shall I welcome the sailor,
  Or stay till the day I die?
  Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships,
  Hold you poison or grapes?

  Dylan Thomas

  Loneliness, Hands, Ships

  Dylan Thomas (2010). “The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas: The Original Edition”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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