Dylan Thomas Quotes

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
Dylan Thomas

Love, Lost, Though

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
Dylan Thomas

Nice, Fire, Makes

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas

Work, Boredom, Rest

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas

Boring, Somebody

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
Dylan Thomas

Straight, Eighteen

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas

Good, Night, Gentle

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

Light, Against, Dying

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

Someone, Alcoholic, Drinks

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

Education, Time, Eyes

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

Bad, Until, Conviction

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
Dylan Thomas

Boring, Said, Somebody

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

Alone, Yourself, True

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Dylan Thomas

Artist, Position, Anywhere

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

Fool, May, Become

But time has set its maggot on their track.
Dylan Thomas

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
Dylan Thomas

Great, Hand, Name

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
Dylan Thomas

Before, Week, Modern

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Dylan Thomas

Great, State, Lucid

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas

After, Function, Posterity

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
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.
Dylan Thomas

Love, God, Fool

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
Dylan Thomas

City, Washington

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Poet

Born: October 27, 1914

Died: November 9, 1953

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