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.

Quote by Dylan Thomas

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

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

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.

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'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.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

It is not their love for men but the impotence of their love for men...

It is not their love for men but the impotence of their love for men...

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it...

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it...

But time has set its maggot on their track.

But time has set its maggot on their track.

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...

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, TIme held...

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, TIme held...

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...

Do not go gentle into that goodnight, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle into that goodnight, rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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...

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.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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...

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...

Love is like a faucet, you can turn it off an' on, But when you...

Love is like a faucet, you can turn it off an' on, But when you...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

What she didn't understand, she being spiritual and seeing religion as spirit, was that it...

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future...

We sat side by side in the morning light and looked out at the future...