Dylan Thomas famous quotes

06-17-2025

You wouldn't think such a place as San Francisco could exist. The wonderful sunlight there, the hills, the great bridges, the Pacific at your shoes. Beautiful Chinatown. Every race in the world. The sardine fleets sailing out. The little cable-cars whizzing down The City hills. And all the people are open and friendly.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Beautiful #Thinking #Race
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Funny #Drinking #Wine
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

#Art #Writing #Creativity
Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Good Night #Light #Dying
I believe in New Yorkers. Whether theyâ€™ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldnâ€™t know, because I wonâ€™t ever dare ask that question.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Dream #Believe #Dare
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Work #Blessing #Boredom
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
-- Dylan Thomas

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

#Education #Reading #Eye
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Love #Broken Heart #Heartbroken
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

#Christmas #Brother #Healing
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
-- Dylan Thomas

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

#Love Is #Men #Thinking
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

#Sweet #Lying #Reading
Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Love #Running #Heart
I love you so much Iâ€™ll never be able to tell you; Iâ€™m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: â€”and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake
-- Dylan Thomas

#Love You #Heart #Mean
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

#Real #Dirty #Optimistic
I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Beautiful #Dream #Thinking
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

#Running #Lying #Hands
One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Sleep #Night #Years
Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Baby #Garden #Grows
Do not go gentle into that good night.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Good Night #Night #Gentle
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Would Be #States
I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Feelings #Enemy #Needs
I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Believe #Records #Whiskey
I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.
-- Dylan Thomas

#Dream #Fall #Love You
the moment of a miracle is unending lightning ...
-- Dylan Thomas

#Miracle #Moments

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