Dylan Thomas Short Quotes

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I must put my pyjamas in the drawer marked pyjamas.

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And honored among wagons I was prince of the apple towns.

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Books that told me everything about the wasp, except why.

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

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And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.

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We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood.

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I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

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There could I marvel
My birthday
Away but the weather turned around.

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And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

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The hunchback in the park
A solitary mister
Propped between trees and water.

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A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.

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And I am dumb to tell the lover's tomb
How at my sheet goes the same crooked worm.

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All world was one, one windy nothing,
My world was christened in a stream of milk.

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Chasing the naughty couples down the grassgreen gooseberried double bed of the wood.

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It was my thirtieth year to heaven
Woke to my hearing from harbour and neighbour wood.

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The photograph is married to the eye,
Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth....

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In the beginning was the secret brain.
The brain was celled and soldered in the thought

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

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My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

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I am in the path of Blake, but so far behind him that only the wings of his heels are in sight.

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In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means.

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To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black.

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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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The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.

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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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Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

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The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

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You must work at the talent as a sculptor works at stone, chiselling, plotting, rounding, edging & making perfect.

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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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On being asked why he had traveled to America:
In pursuit of my life-long quest for naked women in wet mackintoshes.

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