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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.

  Dylan Thomas

  Spring, Night, Sea

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 1

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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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• 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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• 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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• ... 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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• 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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• 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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• I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in 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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  Writing, Angel, Self

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

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• Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.

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  Death, Good Night, Dying

  Dylan Thomas, “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”

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• To begin, at the beginning.

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  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 1

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Come on up, boys -I'm dead.

  Dylan Thomas

  Boys

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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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• It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

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  Christmas, Brother, Sibling

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.16, 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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• I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.

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  Wall, Beer, Glasses

  Dylan Thomas (1986). “The Collected Stories”, p.211, New Directions Publishing

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• Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.

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  Would Be, States, Ifs

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.98, New Directions Publishing

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