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Dylan Thomas
Welsh
Poet
About the author
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Light
#Dying
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Conviction
#Poems
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#State
There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Artist
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Night
Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Washington
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Drinks
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Posterity
The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Land
#Fathers
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.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Now
#May
#Fool
#Vanity
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Fire
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Love
#Lovers
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,
Welsh
Poet
#Love
#God
#Man
#Fool
#Poems
#Praise
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Time
#Liberty
#Education
#Eyes
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
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.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Development
#states
#Poems
#Audiences
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Work
#Rest
#Boredom
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Man
#Name
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.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Public
#Will
#Thinking
#May
#Party
Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
But time has set its maggot on their track.
Dylan Thomas,
Welsh
Poet
#Time