The function of posterity is to look after itself.

Quote by Dylan Thomas

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

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

Love is the only weapon we need.

Love is the only weapon we need.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at...

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with...

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with...

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

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

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

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

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or...

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or...

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that...

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that...

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

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

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down...

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down...

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become...

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become...

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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

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

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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

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

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week...

I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week...

But time has set its maggot on their track.

But time has set its maggot on their track.