Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

"“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”"
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"“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”"
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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.”"
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"“Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”"
Dylan Thomas Fern Hill
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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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"“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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"“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 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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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."
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"The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone."
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"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
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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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"Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work."
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"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
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"Though lovers be lost, love shall not."
Dylan Thomas
"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."
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"Hands have not tears to flow."
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"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
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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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"Somebody's boring me I think it's me."
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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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"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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