110+ Dylan Thomas Quotes On Death, Wales And Swansea

Dylan Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer who rose to prominence during the mid-20th century. He is best known for his poems "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" and "And Death Shall Have No Dominion". His works are noted for their lyrical, musical, and imaginative qualities, and his use of imagery and symbolism. Following is our collection on famous quotes by Dylan Thomas on death, life, love.

Top 10 Dylan Thomas Quotes

1. Do not go gently into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
2. I hold a beast, an angel and a madman within me.
3. When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
4. Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart; Push in their tides.
5. Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.
6. An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
7. 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.
8. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
9. 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.
10. Cold beer is bottled God.

Dylan Thomas Image Quotes

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

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

Dylan Thomas Short Quotes

• Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
• And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.
• I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
• The function of posterity is to look after itself.
• Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
• Join the army and see the next world.
• Beginning with doom in the bulb, the spring unravels.
• The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
• The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.
• The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.

Dylan Thomas Quotes About Death

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. — Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas

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 — Dylan Thomas

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death! — Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

After the first death, there is no other. — 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

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion. — Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Quotes About Life

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

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? — 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. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever. — Dylan Thomas

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

Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good. — 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

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

Dylan Thomas Quotes About Love

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

Though lovers be lost love shall not. — 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

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

Love is the last light spoken. — Dylan Thomas

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. — Dylan Thomas

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

Dylan Thomas Quotes About Sea

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

And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days. — Dylan Thomas

To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. — Dylan Thomas

I sang in my chains like the sea — Dylan Thomas

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea. — Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Quotes About Night

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

Do not go gentle into that good night. — Dylan Thomas

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. — Dylan Thomas

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

Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight, And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way, Do not go gentle into that good night. — 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 bread I break was once the oat, This wine upon a foreign tree Plunged in its fruit; Man in the day or wind at night Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy. — Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas

One Christmas was so much like another,...that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twleve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six. — Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas Famous Quotes And Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose; and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble; it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream. — Dylan Thomas

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. — Dylan Thomas

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

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 Thomas

If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that. — Dylan Thomas

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs. — Dylan Thomas

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. — 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

What I like to do is treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly realized truth I must try to reach and realize. — Dylan Thomas

Reading one's own poems aloud is letting the cat out of the bag. You may have always suspected bits of a poem to be overweighted, overviolent, or daft, and then, suddenly, with the poet's tongue around them, your suspicion is made certain. — Dylan Thomas

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

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression. — 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

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. — Dylan Thomas

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

Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright. — Dylan Thomas

I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth. — Dylan Thomas

Rage, rage against the dying of the light. — Dylan Thomas

I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger. — Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

Poetry is what makes my toenails twinkle. — 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

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed. — Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

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

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

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept. — Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

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

Seventeen whiskeys. A record, I think. — Dylan Thomas

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

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave. — Dylan Thomas

A worm tells summer better than the clock, The slug's a living calendar of days; What shall it tell me if a timeless insect Says the world wears away? — Dylan Thomas

A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder. — Dylan Thomas

There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright. — Dylan Thomas

Shall I let in the stranger, Shall I welcome the sailor, Or stay till the day I die? Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships, Hold you poison or grapes? — Dylan Thomas

Poetry is the rhythmic, inevitably narrative, movement from an overclothed blindness to a naked vision that depends in its intensity on the strength of the labour put into the creation of the poetry. — Dylan Thomas

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

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

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

Me, Polly Garter, under the washing line, giving the breast in the garden to my bonny new baby. Nothing grows in our garden, only washing. And babies. And where's their fathers live, my love? Over the hills and far away. You're looking up at me now. I know what you're thinking, you poor little milky creature. You're thinking, you're no better than you should be, Polly, and that's good enough for me. Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God? — Dylan Thomas

And when the firemen turned off the hose and were standing in the wet, smoky room, Jim's Aunt, Miss. Prothero, came downstairs and peered in at them. Jim and I waited, very quietly, to hear what she would say to them. She said the right thing, always. She looked at the three tall firemen in their shining helmets, standing among the smoke and cinders and dissolving snowballs, and she said, "Would you like anything to read? — Dylan Thomas

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

I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict. — Dylan Thomas

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face? — Dylan Thomas

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

Life Lessons by Dylan Thomas

1. Dylan Thomas' work emphasizes the importance of living life to the fullest and cherishing every moment, no matter how small. He encourages us to find beauty in the everyday and to appreciate the simple things in life.
2. He also reminds us that life is short and that we should strive to make the most of it, to take risks and to never give up on our dreams.
3. Lastly, Dylan Thomas reminds us to be kind and to show compassion to others, as it is the only way to truly find peace and happiness in life.