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Dylan Thomas Quotes

Dylan Thomas quotes

Welsh Poet October 27, 1914 – November 9, 1953

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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. Dylan Thomas
And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read? Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas quote: "Time held me green and dying. Though I sang in my chains like..."
...Time held me green and dying. Though I sang in my chains like the sea. Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas quote: "It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother..."
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. Dylan Thomas
All the Christmases roll down toward the two-tongued sea, like a cold and headlong moon bundling down the sky that was our street; and they stop at the rim of the ice-edged, fish-freezing waves, and I plunge my hands in the snow and bring out whatever I can find. Dylan Thomas
It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. Dylan Thomas
Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun Dylan Thomas
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. Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas quote: "The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it...."
The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs. Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas quote: "But time has set its maggot on their track."
But time has set its maggot on their track. Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas quote: "When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes. Dylan Thomas
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. Dylan Thomas
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. 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
Dylan Thomas quote: "Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies."
Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. Dylan Thomas

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