Dylan Thomas

“Light breaks where no sun shines; Where no sea runs, the waters of the heart Push in their tides.”

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

“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer.”

“And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose my youth is bent by the same wintry fever.”

“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.”

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

“After the first death, there is no other.”

“I hold a beast, an angel, and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working.”

“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.”

“Oh, as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time let me hail and climb Golden in the heydays of his eyes.”

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

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

“A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been added to it.”

“Poetry is what makes me laugh or cry or yawn, what makes my toenails twinkle, what makes me want to do this or that or nothing.”

“I am a painstaking, conscientious, involved and devious craftsman in words.”