But time has set its maggot on their track.
Meaning of the quote
This quote suggests that time has caused damage or decay to something, like a maggot eating away at a track. It's saying that time has taken its toll on whatever the speaker is referring to, and that the effects of time have left their mark in a destructive way.
About Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas was a celebrated Welsh poet and writer known for his iconic works like “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “Under Milk Wood”. He had a vibrant personality and reputation as a “roistering, drunken and doomed poet” despite the challenges he faced as a writer during his lifetime.
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Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
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.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
Washington isn’t a city, it’s an abstraction.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
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.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
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.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
But time has set its maggot on their track.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
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.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. ‘Somebody’s boring me,’ he said, ‘I think it’s me.’
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
Do not go gentle into that good night.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
I’ve just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that’s the record.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)
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.
Welsh poet and writer (1914-1953)