Dylan Thomas Quotes

• It was my thirtieth year to heaven Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood And the mussel pooled and the heron Priested shore.

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• After the first death, there is no other.

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• Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

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• Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green.

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• And the wild boys innocent as strawberries.

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• Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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• I don’t think it does any harm to the artist to be lonely as an artist.

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• Her fist of a face died clenched on a round pain; And sculptured Ann is seventy years of stone.

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• I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within 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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• Shall gods be said to thump the clouds When clouds are cursed by thunder?

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• What is the metre of the dictionary?

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• The hand that signed the paper felled a city; Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath, Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country; These five kings did a king to death.

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• Though they go mad they shall be sane Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

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• I am getting more obscure day by day.

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• Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides.

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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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• 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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• I sang in my chains like the sea.

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

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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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Dylan Thomas (60)

Birth:	27th October, 1914
Death:	9th November, 1953
Nationality:	Welsh
Profession:	Poet, Writer

About

Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems, "Do not go gentle into that good night", "And death shall have no dominion", the "play for voices", Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog.

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