Dylan Thomas: Quotes about the sea

Dylan Thomas was Welsh poet and writer. Explore interesting quotes on sea.
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“Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides”

Dylan Thomas

&quot; Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=265&quot;, st. 1 (1934), st. 1 <br class="br">Context: Light breaks where no sun shines;<br>Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart<br>Push in their tides;<br>And, broken ghosts with glow-worms in their heads,<br>The things of light<br>File through the flesh where no flesh decks the bones.

“It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobblestreets silent and the hunched, courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea. The houses are blind as moles (though moles see fine tonight in the snouting, velvet dingles) or blind as Captain Cat there in the muffled middle by the pump and the town clock, the shops in mourning, the Welfare Hall in widows' weeds. And all the people of the lulled and dumbfound town are sleeping now.”

Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood

Source: &quot; Under Milk Wood http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_umw1.html&quot; (1954)

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

Dylan Thomas book Under Milk Wood

Source: Under Milk Wood

“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)

“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

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

Dylan Thomas

“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.”

Dylan Thomas

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.”

Dylan Thomas

&quot; A Child&#x27;s Christmas in Wales http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_christmas.html&quot;, from Quite Early One Morning (1954)