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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.

  Dylan Thomas

  Horse, Sunday, Past

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

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• Come on up, boys -I'm dead.

  Dylan Thomas

  Boys

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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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• Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

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  Tired, Years, Tears

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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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• It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

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  Spring, Night, Sea

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 1

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• My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

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  Names, Water, Bird

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.205, New Directions Publishing

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• Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

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  Moon, Men, Wind

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• I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.

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  Dream, New York, Believe

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• I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

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  Thinking, Way, Made

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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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• 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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• ... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

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  Sea, Long, Lovely

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• What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize.

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  Spiritual, Doubt, Trying

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• Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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  Love, Broken Heart, Heartbroken

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

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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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• 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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• 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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  Vanity, Upset, Ordinary

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

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• To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

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  Spring, Night, Black

  Under Milk Wood (1954)

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

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  Education, Reading, Eye

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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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• The closer I move
  To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
  The louder the sun blooms
  And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.

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  Moving, Men, Sea

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.185, New Directions Publishing

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• It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

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  Life, Struggle, Light

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• I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

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  Sleep, Darkness, Holy

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

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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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