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Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. — Dylan Thomas

My birthday began with the water -
Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name. — Dylan Thomas

The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same. — John Thorn

Rebel against the flesh and bone,
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay. — Dylan Thomas

All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk. — Dylan Thomas

My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl. — Dylan Lauren

You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up! — Dylan Thomas

Teach me the love that is evergreen after the fall leaved/Grave — Dylan Thomas

Man be my metaphor', — Dylan Thomas

The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried grass like ghosts on dry toast. — Dylan Thomas

Love is the last light spoken. — Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry. — Seamus Heaney

These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade. — Dylan Thomas

There shall be corals in your beds,
There shall be serpents in your tides,
Till all our sea-faiths die. — Dylan Thomas

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

Let the dry eyes perceive
Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve. — Dylan Thomas

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why. — Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
-Dylan Thomas — Victoria Rice

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

I have just had eighteen whiskeys in a row. I do believe that is a record. — Dylan Thomas

Wales: The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it! — Dylan Thomas

In the beginning was the word, the word
That from the solid bases of the light
Abstracted all the letters of the void ... — Dylan Thomas

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

And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye! — Dylan Thomas

Please don't worry about me. My suffering is over. In the wise words of Dylan Thomas ... After the first death, there is no other. — Colleen Hoover

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

Life is a terrible thing, thank God. — Dylan Thomas

Raging against the dying of the light - used in The Book of Peach — Dylan Thomas

Speak, then, o body, shout aloud, And break my only mind from chains To go where ploughing's ended. — Dylan Thomas

Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which / Shall fall awake when cures and their itch / Raise up this red-eyed earth? — Dylan Thomas

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me. — Dylan Thomas

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me. — Dylan Thomas

Call me Dolores. Like they do in the stories. — Dylan Thomas

In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought — Dylan Thomas

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower
Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees
Is my destroyer — Dylan Thomas

Mr. Kipling stands for everything in this cankered world which I would wish were otherwise. — Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day. — Dylan Thomas

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

The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident. — Dylan Thomas

The photograph is married to the eye,
Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth ... — Dylan Thomas

One: I am a Welshman; two: I am a drunkard; three: I am a lover of the human race, especially of women. — Dylan Thomas

Rage, rage against the dying light — Dylan Thomas

I've been influenced by poets as diverse as Dylan Thomas, Lewis Carroll, and Edgar Allan Poe. — Jack Prelutsky

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

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they've ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn't know, because I won't ever dare ask that question. — Dylan Thomas

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

Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box. — Dylan Thomas

I'm not Welsh and I didn't know that much about Dylan Thomas , and I saw that he's a huge icon of Welsh-ness. — Tom Hollander

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

When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts. — Dylan Thomas

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody. — Thomas F. Wilson

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, though there were no reindeers. But there were cats. — Dylan Thomas

The moment of a miracle is unending lightning ... — Dylan Thomas

Cold beer is bottled God. — Dylan Thomas

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did. — Dylan Walsh

And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain ... — Dylan Thomas

Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides. — Dylan Thomas

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

I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
The code of night tapped on my tongue;
What had been one was many sounding minded. — Dylan Thomas

This world is half the devil's and my own, / Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl / And curling round the bud that forks her eye. — Dylan Thomas

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you. — Dylan Thomas

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

Thousands of miles,' I said. It's Rhosilli, USA. We're going to camp on a bit of rock that wobbles in the winds. — Dylan Thomas

I may without fail
Suffer the first vision that set fire to the stars. — Dylan Thomas

Come on up, boys
-I'm dead. — Dylan Thomas

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

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest. — Dylan Thomas

The dream has sucked the sleeper of his faith — Dylan Thomas

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

The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it. — Dylan Thomas

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

Sometimes you just can't walk away from films you're offered, like the Dylan Thomas thing. — Dougray Scott

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

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness. — Tom Hollander

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

But time has set its maggot on their track. — Dylan Thomas

Hands have not tears to flow. — Dylan Thomas

I'm doing a Dylan Thomas film, Map of Love, with Mick Jagger producing again. It's a wonderful script. — Dougray Scott

The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps ... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in. — Dylan Thomas

Before you let the sun in, mind he wipes his shoes. — Dylan Thomas

Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted. — Dylan Thomas

The closer I move
To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
The louder the sun blooms
And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults ... — Dylan Thomas

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light. — Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas, asked what he thought of Welsh Nationalism, replied in three words, two of which were 'Welsh Nationalism.' — Avram Davidson

But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist. — Dylan Thomas

The function of posterity is to look after itself. — Dylan Thomas

Love drips & gathers,
but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores ...
-Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower. — Dylan Thomas

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet. — Dylan Thomas

A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in. — Dylan Thomas

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

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. — Dylan Thomas

Make gentle the life of this world. — Dylan Thomas

Join the army and see the next world. — Dylan Thomas

Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels ... — Dylan Thomas

An ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world. — Dylan Thomas

To begin at the beginning: It is a spring moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black. — Dylan Thomas

I sang in my chains like the sea — Dylan Thomas