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Dylan Thomas Quotes | Quotes said by Dylan Thomas

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #1

    Great is the hand that holds dominion over/Man by a scribbled name.


  • Dylan Thomas Quote #2

    ...Time held me green and dying
    Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #3

    [I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #4

    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 Quote #5

    An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #6

    And death shall have no dominion.
    Under the windings of the sea
    They lying long shall not die windily;
    Twisting on racks when sinews give way,
    Strapped to a wheel, yet they shall not break;
    Faith in their hands shall snap in two,
    And the unicorn evils run them through;
    Split all ends up they shan't crack;
    And death shall have no dominion.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #7

    And I rose
    In rainy autumn
    And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #8

    And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #9

    And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, Would you like anything to read?

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #10

    Come on up, boys
    -I'm dead.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #11

    Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #12

    Do not go gentle into that good night,
    Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
    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.

    Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
    Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    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.

    Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
    Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    And you, my father, there on the sad height,
    Curse, bless me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #13

    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 Quote #14

    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.

    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.

    Good men, the last wave by, crying how bright
    Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    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.

    Grave men, near death, who see with blinding sight
    Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay,
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

    And you, my father, there on the sad height,
    Curse, bless, me now with your fierce tears, I pray.
    Do not go gentle into that good night.
    Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #15

    Do not go gentle into that good night.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #16

    Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #17

    I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #18

    I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #19

    I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; 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 Quote #20

    I sang in my chains like the sea

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #21

    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.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #22

    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 Quote #23

    Man be my metaphor’,

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #24

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

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #25

    On No Work of Words

    On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody
    Belly of the rich year and the big purse of my body
    I bitterly take to task my poverty and craft:

    To take to give is all, return what is hungrily given
    Puffing the pounds of manna up through the dew to heaven,
    The lovely gift of the gab bangs back on a blind shaft.

    To lift to leave from the treasures of man is pleasing death
    That will rake at last all currencies of the marked breath
    And count the taken, forsaken mysteries in a bad dark.

    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 Quote #26

    Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #27

    Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.

    She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.

    Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #28

    Some people react physically to the magic of poetry, to the moments, that is, of authentic revelation, of the communication, the sharing, at its highest level...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 and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #29

    Swansea is a town where art is alive. If it became a cultural centre or a resort where art was fashionable and where it was always being discussed but never being created, it would be a town where art was dead... There is no room in Swansea to be pompous without becoming ludicrous, and all the pompous aspects of Swansea are ludicrous; but the town itself, the town of windows between hills and the sea, is unforgettable. What should Swansea become? It should, I think, generate its own species and become what it is now, a town where art is alive.

  • Dylan Thomas Quote #30

    The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

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