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64 Thought-Provoking Quotes By Dylan Thomas That Won’t Let You Quit!

Famous As: Poet & Writer
Born On: October 27, 1914
Died On: November 9, 1953
Born In: Swansea
Died At Age: 39
Dylan Thomas was a 20th century Welsh poet, known for his works, ‘Under the Milk’, “Do not go gentle into that good night” and “And death shall have no dominion”. His literary career began to unfurl in 1933, when ‘The New English Weekly’, published his first poem in London. Dylan went to London to chase his dream of becoming an acclaimed writer. He also worked for short periods with the British Council and BBC. His book ‘Death and Entrances’ depicted the plight of the people during and post war. He grew famous in America and connected to the people via radio shows. Though he shot to fame with his sayings, writings and quotes his drinking habit and inconsistent behavior intensified, pushing his body to its limits. However in his small lifespan, Dylan became a legend, and his thoughts and quotes are still relevant and motivate many!
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Do not go gentle into that good night.
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas
Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

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

Dylan Thomas
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.

Dylan Thomas
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

Dylan Thomas
I think, that if I touched the earth,
It would crumble;
It is so sad and beautiful,
So tremulously like a dream.

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

Dylan Thomas
An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.

Dylan Thomas
I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem is their subjugation and victory, down throw and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.

Dylan Thomas
...Time held me green and dying
Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

...Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

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

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

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

Dylan Thomas
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.

Dylan Thomas
And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.

Dylan Thomas
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.

Dylan Thomas
[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.

Dylan Thomas
And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...

Dylan Thomas
Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

Dylan Thomas
It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother down and then we had tea.

Dylan Thomas
I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me.

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me.

Dylan Thomas
Dark is a way and light is a place,
Heaven that never was
Nor will be ever is always true

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

Dylan Thomas
Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

Dylan Thomas
I sang in my chains like the sea

I sang in my chains like the sea

Dylan Thomas
Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death.
Then, when his soul is naked, is he one
With the man in the wind, and the west moon, 
With the harmonious thunder of the sun

Man’s wants remain unsatisfied till death. Then, when his soul is naked, is he one With the man in the wind, and the west moon, With the harmonious thunder of the sun

Dylan Thomas
Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Dylan Thomas
And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

And books which told me everything about the wasp, except why.

Dylan Thomas
I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .

I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .

Dylan Thomas
We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.

We are not wholly bad or good, who live our lives under Milk Wood.

Dylan Thomas
Love is the last light spoken.

Love is the last light spoken.

Dylan Thomas
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.

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

Dylan Thomas