Quotes by 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.
• Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
• There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
• Do not go gentle into that good night.
• Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
• An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
• Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
• The function of posterity is to look after itself.
• The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
• When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
• Though lovers be lost love shall not.
• 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.
• Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
• My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
• I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
• 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.
• He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
• Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled 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 talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
• But time has set its maggot on their track.
• Do not go gentle into that good night, rage, rage against the dying of the light.