Dylan Thomas Quotes

1914-1953, Welsh Poet
quotes
8
topics
7
Origin
Topic
“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.”
Bores and Boredom
“The function of posterity is to look after itself.”
Past
“Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.”
Business
“Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.”
Verified"And Death Shall Have No Dominion", st. 1 (1943) · evidenceDeath and Dying
“Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.”
Death and Dying
“The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.”
Verified"The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" (1934), st. 1 · evidenceLife and Living
“I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.”
VerifiedLetter to Caitlin Macnamara, date unknown, cited as possibly late 1936 · evidenceInnocence