“Light breaks on secret lots,
On tips of thought where thoughts smell in the rain;
When logics die,
The secret of the soil grows through the eye,
And blood jumps in the sun;
Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”

—  Dylan Thomas

Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, st. 1 (1934), st. 5

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Welsh poet and writer 1914–1953

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