Dylan Thomas Quotes

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

boredom

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

drinking

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

death old age

I am in the path of Blake, but so far behind him that only the wings of his heels are in sight.

poets

You must work at the talent as a sculptor works at stone, chiselling, plotting, rounding, edging & making perfect.

talent

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.

old age

I fell in love—that is the only expression I can think of—at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behavior very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy.

words

What I like to do is to treat words as a craftsman does his wood or stone or what-have-you, to hew, carve, mold, coil, polish, and plane them into patterns, sequences, sculptures, fugues of sound expressing some lyrical impulse, some spiritual doubt or conviction, some dimly-realized truth I must try to reach and realize.

writing

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.

death