Somebody’s boring me; I think it’s me.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Boredom, Bores
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Alcohol
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
Topics: Death, Death and Dying
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: The Past, Past
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Intellectuals, Intelligence
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
Topics: Writing
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
Topics: Talent
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Life and Living
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Business
One Christmas was so much like another,…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
Topics: Snow
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
Topics: Brothers
A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Writers
This bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape’s joy.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Wine
When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Forgiveness
You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick… You’re back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps… so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Poetry
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
—Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Dying, Death
We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don’t know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don’t care that we don’t.
—Dylan Thomas
Topics: Innocence
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
Topics: Poetry
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- Lu Xun Chinese Writer
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- Joseph Conrad Polish-born British Novelist
- Mikhail Bulgakov Russian Novelist, Dramatist
- George Orwell English Novelist, Essayist, Journalist
- Samuel Beckett Irish Novelist, Playwright
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