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. - Dylan Thomas
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. - Dylan Thomas
Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face? - Dylan Thomas
An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost love shall not. - Dylan Thomas
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
I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record. - Dylan Thomas
After thirty nine years this is all I've done. - Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night. - Dylan Thomas
I sang in my chains like the sea - Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost, love shall not and death shall have no dominion. - Dylan Thomas
Fear not the waking world, my mortal, Fear not the flat, synthetic blood, Nor the heart in the ribbing metal. Fear not the tread, the seeded milling, The trigger and scythe, the bridal blade, Nor the flint in the lover's mauling. - Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion. - Dylan Thomas
[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. - Dylan Thomas
Man be my metaphor’, - Dylan Thomas
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets. - Dylan Thomas
Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name. - Dylan Thomas
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
Someone's boring me. I think it's me. - Dylan Thomas
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do. - Dylan Thomas
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out. - Dylan Thomas