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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:

Come on up, boys -I'm dead. (Dylan Thomas)
And I saw in the turning so clearly a child's Forgotten mornings when he walked with his mother Through the parables Of sunlight And the legends of the green chapels. View quote
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Now as I was young and easy under the apple boughs About the lilting house and happy as the grass was green, The night above the dingle starry, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes. And honoured among wagons I was prince of the apple towns. View quote
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Dawn breaks behind the eyes; From poles of skull and toe the windy blood Slides like a sea; Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky Spout to the rod Divining in a smile the oil of tears. View quote
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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. View quote
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Love is the last light spoken. View quote
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The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs. View quote
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Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over. View quote
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And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you. View quote
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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. View quote
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Do not go gentle into that good night. (Dylan Thomas)
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great. View quote
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And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why. View quote
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Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it. View quote
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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. View quote
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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay. View quote
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name. View quote
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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. View quote
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[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. View quote
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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. View quote
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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)
In the sun that is young once only, Time let me play and be Golden in the mercy of his means. View quote
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When all my five and country senses see, The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye, Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac, Love in the frost is pared and wintered by. View quote
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And honoured among foxes and pheasants by the gay house Under the new made clouds and happy as the heart was long, In the sun born over and over, I ran my heedless ways. View quote
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I fell in love - that is the only expression I can think of - at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy. View quote
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Dylan Thomas

Occupation: Welsh Poet
Born: October 27, 1914
Died: November 9, 1953
Quotes count: 72
Wikipedia: Dylan Thomas

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