Quotes By Dylan Thomas

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

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.

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

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

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

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

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

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

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.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Do not go gentle into that good night.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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