Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

27-Oct-1914


United Kingdom


Poet

Welshman Dylan Thomas was a writer and a prominent figure in the early 20th century. His most famous poem, "Do Not Walk With Gentleness on a Good Night," was published in 1952, but his reputation was strengthened years ago. Thomas' prose includes Under Milk Wood (1954) and Child Christmas in Wales (1955). Thomas was keenly interested in his dance lessons, but debt and heavy drinking resulted, and he died in New York City during a visit in 1953, at the age of 39.

QUOTES BY Dylan Thomas


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

"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 lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion."

"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."

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

"I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream."

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

"I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression."

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

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