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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.
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And time cast forth my mortal creature
To drift or drown upon the seas
Acquainted with the salt adventure
Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer
By sipping at the the vine of days...
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The photograph is married to the eye,
Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth....
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A springful of larks in a rolling Cloud and the roadside bushes brimming with whistling Blackbirds and the sun of October Summery On the hill's shoulder.
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Out of the sighs a little comes,
But not of grief, for I have knocked down that
Before the agony; the spirit grows,
Forgets, and cries;
A little comes, is tasted and found good....
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This bread I break was once the oat,
This wine upon a foreign tree
Plunged in its fruit;
Man in the day or wind at night
Laid the crops low, broke the grape's joy.
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Families, like countries, take their prophets unkindly, but a verse-speaker in the house is dishonor to be hooted.
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I learnt the verbs of will, and had my secret;
The code of night tapped on my tongue;
What had been one was many sounding minded.
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I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.
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The closer I move
To death, one man through his sundered hulks,
The louder the sun blooms
And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults....
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Chastity prays for me, piety sings,
Innocence sweetens my last black breath,
Modesty hides my thighs in her wings,
And all the deadly virtues plague my death!
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A worm tells summer better than the clock,
The slug's a living calendar of days;
What shall it tell me if a timeless insect
Says the world wears away?
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All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.
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Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.
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In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought
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Let the dry eyes perceive
Others betray the lamenting lies of their losses
By the curve of the nude mouth or the laugh up the sleeve.
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I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.
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I have been told to reason by the heart,
But heart, like head, leads helplessly;
I have been told to reason by the pulse,
And, when it quickens, alter the actions' pace
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Rebel against the flesh and bone,
The word of the blood, the wily skin,
And the maggot no man can slay.
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I used to think that once a writer became a man of letters, if only for a half hour, he was done for. And here I am now, at the very moment of such an odious, though respectable, danger.
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The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.
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And from the first declension of the flesh
I learnt man's tongue, to twist the shapes of thoughts
Into the stony idiom of the brain....
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If you want a definition of poetry, say: Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing and let it go at that.
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Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides;
And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,
The things of light
File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.
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I've had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
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Chaos is a name for any order that produces confusion in our minds.
George Santayana
Dylan Thomas
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Born:
October 27, 1914
Died:
November 9, 1953
(aged 39)
Bio:
Dylan Marlais Thomas was a Welsh poet and writer.
Known for:
A Child's Christmas in Wales
Collected Poems (1952)
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog
The poems of Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill
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