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“Poetry is not the most important thing in life… I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.”

Dylan Thomas

“[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.”

Dylan Thomas

“I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me.”

Dylan Thomas

“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

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“To begin, at the beginning…”

Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood

Source: Under Milk Wood

“Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death.
Then, when his soul is naked, is he one
With the man in the wind, and the west moon,
With the harmonious thunder of the sun”

Dylan Thomas

“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

&quot; And Death Shall Have No Dominion http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=277&quot;, st. 1 (1943) <br class="br">Source: Collected Poems

“Come on up, boys
-I'm dead.”

Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood

Source: Under Milk Wood

“Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.”

Dylan Thomas

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

Dylan Thomas

“An ugly, lovely town… crawling, sprawling… by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.”

Dylan Thomas

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

Dylan Thomas Fern Hill

St. 2
Fern Hill (1946)

“When all my five and country senses see,
The fingers will forget green thumbs and mark
How, through the halfmoon's vegetable eye,
Husk of young stars and handfull zodiac,
Love in the frost is pared and wintered by.”

Dylan Thomas

&quot; When All My Five And Country Senses See http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Dylan_Thomas/1149&quot; (1939)

“Light breaks on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”

Dylan Thomas

Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934), st. 5

“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

&quot; The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=266&quot; (1934), st. 1