Dylan Thomas Quotes

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• Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.

  Dylan Thomas

  Second Chance, Tomorrow, Inspirational Good Night

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

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  Good Night, Light, Dying

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• I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.

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  Angel, Enquiry, Upheaval

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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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  Love, Running, Heart

  'Light breaks where no sun shines' (1934)

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

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  Nice, Fire, Bridges

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• I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake

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  Love You, Mean, Heart

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• A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

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  Art, Writing, Creativity

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (1992). “On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts”, p.61, New Directions Publishing

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  Love is the last light spoken.

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  Love Is, Light, Lasts

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.202, New Directions Publishing

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

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  Feelings, Enemy, Needs

  Dylan Thomas (1995). “Dylan Thomas, the complete screenplays”

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

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  Work, Blessing, Boredom

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

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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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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  Love, Death, Sea

  25 Poems (1936) "And Death Shall Have No Dominion." Cf. Romans 6:9

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• I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.

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  Dream, Fall, Love You

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• My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.

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  Beautiful, Dream, Grief

  Dylan Thomas, “Clown In The Moon”

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

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  Funny, Drinking, Food

  Dictionary of 20th Century Quotations quoted by Nigel Rees. Fontana London (1987)

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• Cold beer is bottled God.

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  Beer, Cold, Cold Beer

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

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• Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

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  Life, Thank God, Garters

  'Under Milk Wood' (1954) p. 30

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• The moment of a miracle is unending lightning.

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  Miracle, Lightning, Moments

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.135, New Directions Publishing

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• I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

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  Real, Dirty, Optimistic

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

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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.

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

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  Dream, Men, Breathe

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

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• Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

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  Love Is, Men, Thinking

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• Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry.

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  Vision, Naked, Movement

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.119, 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.

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  Laughing, Let It Go, Definitions

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

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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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  Sweet, Lying, Reading

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