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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

“Man be my metaphor’,”

Men Man

Author:Dylan Thomas

“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.”

Men Joy Night Break Tree Wind Lows Wine Fruit Bread Broke Crops Grapes

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.”

Men Hands Names Business Dominion

Author: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.”

Ifs Men Doubt Written Fool Praise Confusion Damn Umpires

Author:Dylan Thomas

“I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.”

Ifs Thinking Men Done Moments Used Hours Half Danger Letters Respectable Here I Am Pretension Half Hours

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.”

Knows Men Sound Mouths London Accents Marble Abolish Welsh Hairdresser

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“And from the first declension of the flesh I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts Into the stony idiom of the brain.”

Thinking Men Firsts Language Brain Shapes Speech Tongue Flesh Thoughtful Twists Idiom

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.”

Men Moving Sun Sea Dying Aging One Man

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.”

Men Life Body Blood Skins Bones Flesh Rebel Maggots

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Men Way Night Sun Late Caught Flight Gentle Too Late Good Night Had A Good Night Wild Man

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Knows Men Ends Night Dark Wise Gentle Lightning Good Night Interstellar Had A Good Night

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“In my craft or sullen art Exercised in the still night When only the moon rages And the lovers lie abed With all their griefs in their arms, I labour by singing light Not for ambition or bread Or the strut and trade of charms On the ivory stages But for the common wages Of their most secret heart. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art.”

“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”

Men Want Soul Sun Wind Moon West Naked Thunder Harmonious Unsatisfied

Author:Dylan Thomas

“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”

Thinking Knows Men Light Love Is Picks Candle

Author:Dylan Thomas

“These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.”

Men Dream Breathe Fades

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

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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