Dylan Thomas: Quotes about love

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

Dylan Thomas: 100 quotes20 likes

“Love is the last light spoken.”

“Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”

Variant: Though lovers be lost love shall not.

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

“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.”

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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

Poetic Manifesto, published in the Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)