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Dylan Thomas was a renowned Welsh poet known for his unique poetic style and passionate recitations. His works were filled with love for life and contemplation of death, making him one of the most influential poets of the 20th century.

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Famous Dylan Thomas Quotes

“And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!”

Eye Night Wicked Sunday Sunday Night Seesaw

Author:Dylan Thomas

“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.”

World Eye Girl My Own Half This World Drug Devil Rounds Smoking Her Eyes Bud Forks Daft

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Let the dry eyes perceive Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.”

Eye Lying Loss Laughing Mouths Perceive Dry Betray Curves Sleeves

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.”

Eye Truth Married Skins Photograph Brides One Sided

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“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.”

Eye Dies Grows Nature Secret Sun Blood Waste Logic Dawn Soil Vitality Halt Through The Eyes Allotments

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”

Eye Reading Education Liberty Hanging Out Hanging Around Importance Of Education

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.”

Dream Eye Sleep Secret Behinds Sea Streets Bones Bags Dreamer Salt Bob Ashes Shells Feathers Juice Wrecks Whales Snowflake Moonshine Saliva

Book:Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

Source: Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices

About the Author

Born: October 27, 1914
Died: November 9, 1953
Known for: Poet
Quotes: 157

Books & Sources

The Poems of Dylan ThomasRelated source material

Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952Related source material

Quite Early One MorningRelated source material

The collected lettersRelated source material

On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The BroadcastsRelated source material

Under Milk Wood: A Play for VoicesRelated source material

Collected PoemsRelated source material

Under Milk WoodRelated source material

A Child's Christmas in WalesRelated source material

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good NightRelated source material

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