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• I sang in my chains like the sea

  Dylan Thomas

  Sea, Chains

  "Fern Hill" l. 52 (1946)

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• Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.

  Dylan Thomas

  Baby, Garden, Garters

  Under Milk Wood (1954) p. 30

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• I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
  The code of night tapped on my tongue;
  What had been one was many sounding minded.

  Dylan Thomas

  Learning, Knowledge, Night

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

  Dylan Thomas

  Flower, Color, Age

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• Rage, rage against the dying light

  Dylan Thomas

  Light, Dying, Rage

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

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• This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

  Dylan Thomas

  Believe, Suffering, Violence

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.108, New Directions Publishing

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• Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.

  Dylan Thomas

  Sleep, Two, Salt

  Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

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• I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, Records, Famous Last Words

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• A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.

  Dylan Thomas

  Nature, Clouds, October

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

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• Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

  Dylan Thomas

  Party, Thinking, Needs

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• Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

  Dylan Thomas

  Dark, Light, Heaven

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• There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.

  Dylan Thomas

  Artist

  'Quite Early One Morning' (1954) pt. 2 'Wales and the Artist'

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• The photograph is married to the eye,
  Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.

  Dylan Thomas

  Truth, Eye, Skins

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.105, New Directions Publishing

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• ... Rebel against the flesh and bone,
  The word of the blood, the wily skin,
  And the maggot no man can slay.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Men, Blood

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

  Dylan Thomas

  Life, Flower, Roots

  "The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)

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• The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.

  Dylan Thomas

  Father, Land

  On Wales, in 'Adam' December 1953

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• Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.

  Dylan Thomas

  Cities, Abstraction

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• I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Sound, Mouths

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.

  Dylan Thomas

  Business, Men, Hands

  'The hand that signed the paper felled a city' (1936)

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• Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

  Dylan Thomas

  Good Night, Wise, Dark

  Dylan Thomas (2003). “Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952”, p.122, New Directions Publishing

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• But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.

  Dylan Thomas

  Thinking, San Francisco

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• I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.

  Dylan Thomas

  Men, Thinking, Here I Am

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.113, New Directions Publishing

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• I have been told to reason by the heart,
  But heart, like head, leads helplessly;
  I have been told to reason by the pulse,
  And, when it quickens, alter the actions' pace

  Dylan Thomas

  Heart, Pulse, Pace

  Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.136, New Directions Publishing

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• Hands have not tears to flow.

  Dylan Thomas

  Hands, Tears, Flow

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• The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

  Dylan Thomas

  Writing, World, Today

  Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.100, New Directions Publishing

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