Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomaswas a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City. By...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 October 1914
CitySwansea, Wales
Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
Join the army and see the next world.
Cold beer is bottled God.
Love drips & gathers, but the fallen blood Shall calm her sores..." -Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
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.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
the moment of a miracle is unending lightning ...