The hand that signed the treaty bred a fever,
And famine grew, and locusts came;
Great is the hand the holds dominion over
Man by a scribbled name. (ang.)
Źródło: Dłoń, która podpisała papier (The hand that signed the paper), tłumaczenie Stanisław Barańczak
Dylan Thomas słynne cytaty
My poetry is, or should be, useful to others for its individual recording of that same struggle with which they are necessarily acquainted. (ang.)
odpowiadając na pytanie czy stara się, aby jego poezja była użyteczna dla niego lub innych.
Źródło: „New Verse” nr 11, październik 1934, za: Quite Early One Morning, New Directions, Nowy Jork 1954, s. 119.
„Nie wchodź łagodnie do tej dobrej nocy
Buntuj się, buntuj, gdy światło się mroczy.”
Do not go gently into that good night
Rage, rage against the dying of the light. (ang.)
Źródło:Nie wchodź łagodnie do tej dobrej nocy (Do not go gently into that good night), tłumaczenie Stanisław Barańczak
Dylan Thomas: Cytaty po angielsku
“And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.”
Źródło: A Child's Christmas in Wales
“In the sun that is young once only,
Time let me play and be
Golden in the mercy of his means.”
St. 2
Fern Hill (1946)
" When All My Five And Country Senses See http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Dylan_Thomas/1149" (1939)
Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934), st. 5
" The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=266" (1934), st. 1
" Poem in October http://www.bigeye.com/october.htm", st. 5 (1946)
Poetic Manifesto, published in the Texas Quarterly (Winter 1961)
“And the sabbath rang slowly
In the pebbles of the holy streams.”
St. 2
Fern Hill (1946)
Poetic Manifesto
" The Hand that Signed the Paper Felled a City http://www.internal.org/view_poem.phtml?poemID=98", st. 1 (1936)
“After the first death, there is no other.”
" A Refusal To Mourn The Death, By Fire, Of A Child In London http://www.poetryconnection.net/poets/Dylan_Thomas/1093", st. 4 (1946)
" A Child's Christmas in Wales http://www.undermilkwood.net/prose_christmas.html", from Quite Early One Morning (1954)