Dylan Thomas: Likeness

Dylan Thomas was Welsh poet and writer. Explore interesting quotes on likeness.

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“I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.”

“An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.”

“Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.”

Dylan Thomas Fern Hill

St. 6
Variant: I sang in my chains like the sea
Source: Fern Hill (1946)

“Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.”

“And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.”

Dylan Thomas Rebecca's Daughters

Source: Rebecca's Daughters

“Dawn breaks behind the eyes;
From poles of skull and toe the windy blood
Slides like a sea;
Nor fenced, nor staked, the gushers of the sky
Spout to the rod
Divining in a smile the oil of tears.”

Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934), st. 3

“One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now, out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.”

" A Child's Christmas in Wales http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_christmas.html", from Quite Early One Morning (1954)