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

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

"We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood."

"Come on up, boys -I'm dead."

"Love is the last light spoken."

"And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why."

"I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . ."

"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."

"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"

"I sang in my chains like the sea"

"Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought."

"Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday"

"I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me."

"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."

"Though lovers be lost love shall not."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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