Dylan Thomas Quotes


"Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: State)

"There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Artist)

"Do not go gentle into that good night."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Night)

"Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Washington)

"An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Drinks)

"Somebody's boring me. I think it's me."
- Dylan Thomas
"The function of posterity is to look after itself."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Posterity)

"The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Fathers, Land)

"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
(Related: Fool, May, Now, Vanity)

"When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Fire)

"Though lovers be lost love shall not."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Love, Lovers)

"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
(Related: Love, God, Fool, Man, Poems, Praise)

"Rage, rage against the dying of the light."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Dying, Light)

"My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Education, Time, Eyes, Liberty)

"I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record."
- 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
(Related: Development, Audiences, Poems, states)

"He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Work, Boredom, Rest)

"Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Man, Name)

"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
(Related: May, Party, Public, Thinking, Will)

"Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'"
- Dylan Thomas
"But time has set its maggot on their track."
- Dylan Thomas
(Related: Time)