Dylan Thomas quotes

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer known for his lyrical and emotive poetry. His works, such as "Do not go gentle into that good night," captured deep feelings and vivid imagery. He influenced generations of poets and is celebrated for his powerful language and unique style. Here are 72 of his quotes:

Someone's boring me. I think it's me. (Dylan Thomas)
An alcoholic is someone who you do not like who drinks as much as you do. View quote
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When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. View quote
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I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record. View quote
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Though lovers be lost love shall not. View quote
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. View quote
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After the first death, there is no other. View quote
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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. View quote
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Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light. View quote
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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. View quote
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Light breaks where no sun shines Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides. (Dylan Thomas)
I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine. View quote
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. View quote
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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. View quote
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There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright. View quote
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The function of posterity is to look after itself. View quote
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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now, 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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. View quote
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To begin at the beginning. (Dylan Thomas)
Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. View quote
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I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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