"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."
— Dylan Thomas

"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."
— Dylan Thomas

"Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."
— Dylan Thomas

"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."
— Dylan Thomas

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
— Dylan Thomas

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
— Dylan Thomas

"And death shall have no dominion.
Dead men naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
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.
And death shall have no dominion.
Under the windings of the sea
They lying long shall not die windily;
Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
And the unicorn evils run them through;
Split all ends up they shan't crack;
And death shall have no dominion.
And death shall have no dominion.
No more may gulls cry at their ears
Or waves break loud on the seashores;
Where blew a flower may a flower no more
Lift its head to the blows of the rain;
Though they be mad and dead as nails,
Heads of the characters hammer through daisies;
Break in the sun till the sun breaks down,
And death shall have no dominion.
"
— Dylan Thomas

"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.
"
— Dylan Thomas

"I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream."
— Dylan Thomas

"Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets."
— Dylan Thomas

"" 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."

"
— Dylan Thomas

"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"
— Dylan Thomas

""...Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea."
"
— Dylan Thomas (Fern Hill)

"Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea."
— Dylan Thomas (Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices)

"And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read?"

"
— Dylan Thomas (A Child's Christmas in Wales)

"One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six."
— Dylan Thomas

"Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing, at its highest level...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 and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him."
— Dylan Thomas

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

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

"A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people. "
— Dylan Thomas

"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . ."
— Dylan Thomas

"Do not go gentle into that good night....
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. "
— Dylan Thomas

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

"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

" Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name."
— Dylan Thomas

""And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
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." "
— Dylan Thomas

"In my craft or sullen art
Exercised in the still night
When only the moon rages
And the lovers lie abed
With all their griefs in their arms
I labour by singing light
Not for ambition or bread
Or the strut and trade of charms
On the ivory stages
But for the common wages
Of their most secret heart.

Not for the proud man apart
From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms
But for the lovers, their arms
Round the griefs of the ages,
Who pay no praise or wages
Nor heed my craft or art
"
— Dylan Thomas

"and death shall have no dominion"
— Dylan Thomas

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light. Though wise men at their end know dark is right"
— Dylan Thomas

"And Death Shall Have No Dominion


They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
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.


"
— Dylan Thomas

"Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
— Dylan Thomas

""Love drips & gathers,
but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores..."
-Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower."
— Dylan Thomas (Collected Poems 1934-1952)

"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"
— Dylan Thomas

"And death shall have no dominion.
Dead mean naked they shall be one
With the man in the wind and the west moon;
When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone,
They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
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."
— Dylan Thomas

""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."


"
— Dylan Thomas

"And death shall have no dominion
"
— Dylan Thomas

"...though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion"
— Dylan Thomas