Dylan Thomas Quotes

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or s...

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one ...

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been adde...

Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

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

Time held me green and dyingThough I sang in my chains like the sea.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you ...

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

On No Work of WordsOn no work of words now for three lean months in the bloodyBelly of the rich year...

Come on up, boys-I'm dead.

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

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been adde...

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselv...

Do not go gentle into that good night.

I sang in my chains like the sea

Somebody's boring me I think it's me.

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't k...

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss....

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him w...

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Man be my metaphor’,

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, tho...

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother do...

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

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of...

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day;Rage, rage agains...

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rage at close of day; Rage, rage agai...

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to l...

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha C...

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts and confusions, are written for the love of man and in...

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Hands have not tears to flow.

And death shall have no dominion.Under the windings of the seaThey lying long shall not die windily;...

Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage again...

In my craft or sullen artExercised in the still nightWhen only the moon ragesAnd the lovers lie abed...