“Light breaks where no sun shines;
Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart
Push in their tides”

—  Dylan Thomas

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

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Welsh poet and writer 1914–1953

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