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Dylan Thomas Quotes

Total quotes: 22
“To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: Surrender, Blood, Work
“This is the world: the lying likeness of
Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth;
The dream that kicks the buried from their sack
And lets their trash be honoured as the quick.
This is the world. Have faith”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: World, Faith, Dream
“Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which
Shall fall awake when cures and their itch Raise up this red-eyed earth?”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: World, Sleep, Awake
“Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.”
— Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
Tagged: Time, Listening, Night
“This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl And curling round the bud that forks her eye.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: World, devil
“These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: Dream, Dreaming, breathe, Fade
“Love drips & gathers,
but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores..”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: Love, Blood, Wound
“I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils
Tagged: Friend, Enemy, Companion, Feelings
“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, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: Youth, Age, Time
“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, A Child's Christmas in Wales
Tagged: Snow, Fight, Siblings, Love
“They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
— Dylan Thomas, And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Tagged: Love, lost, Death
“Light breaks on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”
— Dylan Thomas, Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
Tagged: Light, Thought, Logic
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer.
And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose
My youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower
Tagged: force, Age, Youth
“Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things of light
File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.”
— Dylan Thomas, Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines
Tagged: Light, Sun, Sea
“After the first death, there is no other.”
— Dylan Thomas, A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London
Tagged: Death, Ending, Last
“In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means.”
— Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
Tagged: Sun, Time, Mercy
“I fell in love — that is the only expression I can think of — at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.”
— Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, expression
“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”
— Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
Tagged: Time, Chain, Trap
“And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.”
— Dylan Thomas, Rebecca's Daughters
Tagged: Manners, No manners, Gentlemen
“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 Goodnight
Tagged: gentle, Night, Rage
“When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
— Dylan Thomas, via Wikiquote
Tagged: Burning Bridges, Cutting People Off, cutting ties, Relationships, Life, improving self, self control
“The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem, so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in.”
— Dylan Thomas, Modern Poets on Modern Poetry
Tagged: Poetry, Create Mystery
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