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Dylan Thomas Quotes

Total quotes: 11
“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 bent by the same wintry fever.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower
Tagged: force, Age, Youth
“They shall have stars at elbow and foot;
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, And Death Shall Have No Dominion
Tagged: Love, lost, Death
“I do not need any friends. I prefer enemies. They are better company and their feelings towards you are always genuine.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Doctor and the Devils
Tagged: Friend, Enemy, Companion, Feelings
“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”
— Dylan Thomas, Fern Hill
Tagged: Time, Chain, Trap
“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.”
— Dylan Thomas, A Child's Christmas in Wales
Tagged: Snow, Fight, Siblings, Love
“Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which
Shall fall awake when cures and their itch Raise up this red-eyed earth?”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: World, Sleep, Awake
“Love drips & gathers,
but the fallen blood
Shall calm her sores..”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: Love, Blood, Wound
“Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: Youth, Age, Time
“Time passes. Listen. Time passes.
Come closer now.
Only you can hear the houses sleeping in the streets in the slow deep salt and silent black, bandaged night.”
— Dylan Thomas, Under Milk Wood
Tagged: Time, Listening, Night
“These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.”
— Dylan Thomas, The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas
Tagged: Dream, Dreaming, breathe, Fade
“I fell in love — that is the only expression I can think of — at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.”
— Dylan Thomas, Poetic Manifesto
Tagged: Love, Falling In Love, expression
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