Dylan Thomas was a famous Poet from Welsh, who lived between October 27, 1914 and November 9, 1953. He/she became only 39 years old.
Zodiac:
He/she is born under the zodiac scorpio, who is known for Transient, Self-Willed, Purposeful, Unyielding.
Our collection contains 22 quotes who is written / told by Dylan.
22 Famous quotes by 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"
"The function of posterity is to look after itself"
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out"
"Do not go gentle into that good night"
"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest"
"Though lovers be lost love shall not"
"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"
"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it"
"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record"
"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"
"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name"
"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"
"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do"
"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me"
"Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'"
"But time has set its maggot on their track"
"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction"
"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright"
"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great"
"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes"
"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"