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.

  Dylan Thomas

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

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  Work, Blessing, Boredom

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

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  Book, Reading, Thinking

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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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• 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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• 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 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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• Join the army and see the next world.

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  Army, Cynical, World

  Dylan Thomas (2014). “Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters”, p.787, Hachette UK

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• Years and years ago, when I was a boy, when there were wolves in Wales, and birds the color of red-flannel petticoats whisked past the harp-shaped hills, when we sang and wallowed all night and day in caves that smelt like Sunday afternoons in damp front farmhouse parlors, and we chased, with the jawbones of deacons, the English and the bears, before the motor car, before the wheel, before the duchess-faced horse, when we rode the daft and happy hills bareback, it snowed and it snowed.

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  Horse, Sunday, Past

  Dylan Thomas, Ellen Raskin (2003). “A Child's Christmas in Wales”, p.10, New Directions Publishing

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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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  Sex, Lying, Sea

  Dylan Thomas (1975). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”

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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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• Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Tattoo, Good Night, Goodnight

  "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" l. 16 (1952)

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• The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.

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  Poetry, Gaps, Thunder

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

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• You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.

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  Beautiful, Thinking, Race

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• 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, Thinking

  Dylan Thomas, “Clown In The Moon”

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