A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial disabilities.
– Dylan Thomas
Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
– Dylan Thomas
Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
– Dylan Thomas
Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
– Dylan Thomas
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
– Dylan Thomas
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
– 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, downthrow and upheaval, and my effort is their self-expression.
– Dylan Thomas
I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
– Dylan Thomas
I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
– Dylan Thomas
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
– Dylan Thomas
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
– Dylan Thomas
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
– Dylan Thomas
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.
– Dylan Thomas
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
– Dylan Thomas
These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and in praise of God, and I'd be a damn' fool if they weren't.
– Dylan Thomas
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
– Dylan Thomas
Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.
– Dylan Thomas
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
– Dylan Thomas
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
– Dylan Thomas
You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps... so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash or thunder in.
– 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.