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Dylan Thomas Quotes
Best Quotes by Dylan Thomas (Top 10)
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Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
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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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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
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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: âand 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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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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Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
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An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
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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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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
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More Dylan Thomas Quotes
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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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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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Love is the last light spoken.
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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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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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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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Though lovers be lost love shall not.
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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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Come on up, boys-I'm dead.
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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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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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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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To begin, at the beginning...
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These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
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I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
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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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Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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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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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
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A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.
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