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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

“Join the army and see the next world.”

World Next Army Cynical Joining The Army

Book:Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters

Source: Dylan Thomas: The Collected Letters

“I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.”

World Dream Fall Millions Love You Painting Hair Lovely Vampire Clock Dirty Nails Greatest Love Dizzy Love You More I Love You More

Author:Dylan Thomas

“You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.”

People Thinking World Littles Beautiful Race Cities Wonderful Car Shoes Hills Bridges Friendly Sunlight Sailing San Francisco Cables Pacific Beautiful City Sardines Chinatown

Author:Dylan Thomas

“I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.”

World White Wall Taste Depth Lips Glasses Corners Tongue Beer Brown Salt Wet Belly Brass Foam Swallowing

Book:The Collected Stories

Source: The Collected Stories

“A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.”

World Humor Comic

Book:On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

Source: On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

“The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.”

World Feels Writing Today Conditions Comic World Today

Book:Quite Early One Morning

Source: Quite Early One Morning

“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

“All world was one, one windy nothing, My world was christened in a stream of milk.”

World Streams Milk Abyss Windy Christening

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away?”

Ifs World Time Summer Clock Timeless Worms Insects Calendars Slugs

Book:Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

Source: Dylan Thomas Selected Poems, 1934-1952

“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.”

World Writing Has Beens Art Helping Reality Poetry Universe Creativity Shapes Contribution

Book:On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

Source: On the Air with Dylan Thomas: The Broadcasts

“... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.”

World Long Sides Sea Towns Ugly Lovely Shore Splendid Crawling

Author:Dylan Thomas

“I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake”

World Want Feels Heart Mean I Can Soul Whole Body Able Love You Bed And Love Whole World Awake Tunes Frightened Love You So Much I Love You So Much

Author: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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