Dylan Thomas Quotes:
On life, on writing, etc
“My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.”
”When one burns one’s bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.”
”Somebody’s boring me. I think it’s me.”
“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.”
Poetry:
~“And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days…”
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.”
~“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”
Though they go mad they shall be sane,
Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again;
Though lovers be lost love shall not;
And death shall have no dominion.”
~“Especially when the October wind
With frosty fingers punishes my hair,
Caught by the crabbing sun I walk on fire
And cast a shadow crab upon the land,
By the sea’s side, hearing the noise of birds,
Hearing the raven cough in winter sticks,
My busy heart who shudders as she talks
Sheds the syllabic blood and drains her words.”
