Dylan Thomas quote: "I love you so much I’ll never be able to tell you; I’m frightened to tell you. I can always feel your heart. Dance tunes are always right: I love you body and soul: —and I suppose body means that I want to touch you and be in bed with you, and i suppose soul means that i can hear you and see you and love you in every single, single thing in the whole world asleep or awake"

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots o...
DYLAN THOMAS

Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
DYLAN THOMAS

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, r...
DYLAN THOMAS

You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it tick... You're back with the mystery of having been m...
DYLAN THOMAS

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same once a good poem has been adde...
DYLAN THOMAS

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
DYLAN THOMAS

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
DYLAN THOMAS

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

To begin at the beginning: It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black,...
DYLAN THOMAS

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
DYLAN THOMAS

We can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocen...
DYLAN THOMAS

One Christmas was so much like another,...that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days a...
DYLAN THOMAS

A born writer is born scrofulous; his career is an accident dictated by physical or circumstantial d...
DYLAN THOMAS

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother do...
DYLAN THOMAS

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
DYLAN THOMAS

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
DYLAN THOMAS

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
DYLAN THOMAS

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true:...
DYLAN THOMAS

Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
DYLAN THOMAS

But time has set its maggot on their track.
DYLAN THOMAS

No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into...
DYLAN THOMAS

Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
DYLAN THOMAS

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging o...
DYLAN THOMAS

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and i...
DYLAN THOMAS

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some ...
DYLAN THOMAS

Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselv...
DYLAN THOMAS

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 be...
DYLAN THOMAS

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
DYLAN THOMAS

As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of word...
DYLAN THOMAS

The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
DYLAN THOMAS

The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to l...
DYLAN THOMAS

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reali...
DYLAN THOMAS

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
DYLAN THOMAS

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ord...
DYLAN THOMAS

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

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

And I rose
In rainy autumn
And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...
DYLAN THOMAS

I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of...
DYLAN THOMAS

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

18 straight whiskies - I think that's a record.
DYLAN THOMAS

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage agai...
DYLAN THOMAS

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

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, r...
DYLAN THOMAS

I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.
DYLAN THOMAS

After thirty nine years this is all I've done.
DYLAN THOMAS

The function of posterity is to look after itself
DYLAN THOMAS

Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of ...
DYLAN THOMAS

And on seesaw Sunday nights, I'd woo who ever I would with my wicked eye!
DYLAN THOMAS

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in...
DYLAN THOMAS

We were just annoyed at being kicked off Main Street.
DYLAN THOMAS

Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha C...
DYLAN THOMAS

On No Work of Words

On no work of words now for three lean months in the bloody
Bell...
DYLAN THOMAS

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

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rage at close of day;
Rag...
DYLAN THOMAS

Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
DYLAN THOMAS

the land of my fathers . . . . I leave it to my fathers.
DYLAN THOMAS

Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, TIme held me green and dying Though I sang in ...
DYLAN THOMAS

To begin at the beginning.
DYLAN THOMAS

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
DYLAN THOMAS

I hold a beast, an angel and a madman in me, and my enquiry is as to their working, and my problem i...
DYLAN THOMAS

Wales is the land of my fathers. And my fathers can have it.
DYLAN THOMAS

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage agai...
DYLAN THOMAS

Do not go gentle into that good night,Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage again...
DYLAN THOMAS

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage,...
DYLAN THOMAS

These poems, with all their crudities, doubts, and confusions, are written for the love of Man and i...
DYLAN THOMAS

I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
DYLAN THOMAS

A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the...
DYLAN THOMAS

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
DYLAN THOMAS

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or s...
DYLAN THOMAS

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

The crisp path through the field in this December snow, in the deep dark, where we trod the buried g...
DYLAN THOMAS

It was snowing. It was always snowing at Christmas. December, in my memory, is white as Lapland, tho...
DYLAN THOMAS

Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ord...
DYLAN THOMAS

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage aga...
DYLAN THOMAS

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, ...
DYLAN THOMAS

It snowed last year too: I made a snowman and my brother knocked it down and I knocked my brother do...
DYLAN THOMAS

I've had eighteen straight whiskies, I think that's the record . . .
DYLAN THOMAS

No one is free, even the birds are chained to the sky.
BOB DYLAN

I'd be hard-pressed to think of anybody who's made me laugh, who's funny, but who's ...
DYLAN MORAN

A mistake is to commit a misunderstanding.
BOB DYLAN

I was in school, but I wasn't into school. I wasn't doing what I wanted to be doing in schoo...
DYLAN O'BRIEN

It's hard to speculate what tomorrow may bring.
BOB DYLAN

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.
BOB DYLAN

I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 mode...
DYLAN O'BRIEN

One time, this guy at this music festival would not let me off the hook that I was Percy Jackson. He...
DYLAN MINNETTE

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw ...
BOB DYLAN

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by v...
BOB DYLAN

Inspiration is hard to come by. You have to take it where you find it.
BOB DYLAN

I felt like I might as well have been living in another part of the solar system.
BOB DYLAN

When you cease to exist, then who will you blame?
BOB DYLAN

I don't think the human mind can comprehend the past and the future. They are both just illusion...
BOB DYLAN

I change during the course of a day. I wake and I'm one person, and when I go to sleep I know fo...
BOB DYLAN

Some people seem to fade away but then when they are truly gone, it's like they didn't fade ...
BOB DYLAN

I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.
BOB DYLAN

There is nothing so stable as change.
BOB DYLAN

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
BOB DYLAN

If I wasn't Bob Dylan, I'd probably think that Bob Dylan has a lot of answers myself.
BOB DYLAN

My friends call me Clark Kent: I'm known to change in phone booths.
DYLAN LAUREN

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
BOB DYLAN

I had no songs in my repertoire for commercial radio anyway. Songs about debauched bootleggers, moth...
BOB DYLAN

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
BOB DYLAN

A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in between he does wha...
BOB DYLAN

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it'...
DYLAN MORAN

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you'd like to act.
BOB DYLAN

People will kill you. Over time. They will shave out every last morsel of fun in you with little, ha...
DYLAN MORAN

Money doesn't talk, it swears.
BOB DYLAN

I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly ...
BOB DYLAN

I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be j...
BOB DYLAN

She opened up a book of poems and handed it to me written by an Italian poet from the 13th century a...
BOB DYLAN

A person is a success if they get up in the morning and gets to bed at night and in between does wha...
BOB DYLAN

You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past -- whatever experience gotten in any way what...
BOB DYLAN

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedo...
BOB DYLAN

Despite everybody who has been born and has died, the world has just gone on. I mean, look at Napole...
BOB DYLAN

To live outside the law, you must be honest.
BOB DYLAN

Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.
BOB DYLAN

I've tried like hell to make bad movies good, and I can't. Maybe Marlon Brando has been able to do t...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

Don't matter how much money you got, there's only two kinds of people: there's saved people and ther...
BOB DYLAN

In ceremonies of the horsemen, even the pawn must hold a grudge.
BOB DYLAN

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.
BOB DYLAN

Maybe in the 90s or possibly in the next century people will look upon the 80s as the age of masturb...
BOB DYLAN

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed aroun...
BOB DYLAN

I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, yo...
BOB DYLAN

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.
BOB DYLAN

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
BOB DYLAN

Democracy don't rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, b...
BOB DYLAN

Well, I don't know, but I've been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how thin...
BOB DYLAN

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
BOB DYLAN

Jesus tapped me on the shoulder and said, Bob, why are you resisting me? I said, I'm not resisting y...
BOB DYLAN

Don’t clap I’m not a jazz band for Christ’s sake.
DYLAN MORAN

The times they are a-changing.
BOB DYLAN

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
BOB DYLAN

How many roads must a man walk down Before your can call him a man? . . . The answer, my frien...
BOB DYLAN

Blame it on a simple twist of fate.
BOB DYLAN

Music can save people, but it can't in the commercial way it's being used. It's just too much. It's ...
BOB DYLAN

Chaos is a friend of mine.
BOB DYLAN

Come mothers and fathers Throughout the land, And don't criticize What you can't understand
BOB DYLAN

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence,...
BOB DYLAN

He not busy being born is busy dying.
BOB DYLAN

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee...
BOB DYLAN

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all goin...
BOB DYLAN

Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Si...
BOB DYLAN

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in betwee...
BOB DYLAN

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!
BOB DYLAN

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed arou...
BOB DYLAN

Hey! Mr. Tamborine Man, play a song for me. I'm not sleepy and there is no place I'm going to.
BOB DYLAN

Come you masters of warYou that build all the gunsYou that build the death planesYou that build the ...
BOB DYLAN

In the dime stores and bus stations, People talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, Draw ...
BOB DYLAN

I can't swim. I can't drive, either. I was going to learn to drive but then I thought, well, what if...
DYLAN MORAN

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.
BOB DYLAN

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior pow...
BOB DYLAN

I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can...
DYLAN MORAN

Stand-up came naturally to me because people in Ireland talk. But that's not talking on panel sh...
DYLAN MORAN

All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.
BOB DYLAN

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.
BOB DYLAN

I accept chaos, I'm not sure whether it accepts me.
BOB DYLAN

It's not easy to define poetry.
BOB DYLAN

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in be...
BOB DYLAN

A lot of people don't like the road, but it's as natural to me as breathing.
BOB DYLAN

I'm a stuffed rabbit collector.
DYLAN LAUREN

I like having a lot of sunlight because it helps me wake up. And I don't get depressed in winter...
DYLAN LAUREN

I'll offset neutral shades with bright colors. It helps me stand out without looking cartoonish.
DYLAN LAUREN

I shop for candy instead of clothes!
DYLAN LAUREN

I was not a girly girl. I was a tomboy.
DYLAN LAUREN

To save money on gifts, give someone their favorite candy in a beautiful, customized vessel with a p...
DYLAN LAUREN

If you're running a race, and you're looking at the lane to your right or your left, you'...
DYLAN LAUREN

Before I got married, I never really watched TV. Now, my husband and I watch 'The Bachelor' ...
DYLAN LAUREN

I collect candy packaging from around the world and believe it has the value of Pop Art.
DYLAN LAUREN

On really hot days, I try to motivate friends and family to come into the pool for an aqua jogging s...
DYLAN LAUREN

My parents screened 'Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory' for my 6th birthday, and I bec...
DYLAN LAUREN

Putting good energy into your body and raising your serotonin will lead to a positive mood, exuding ...
DYLAN LAUREN

When I started Dylan's Candy Bar in 2001, I wanted it to be a place that merged my love of pop c...
DYLAN LAUREN

Every two months, I allow myself a splurge day where I eat thick, doughy pizza from Pizzeria Uno or ...
DYLAN LAUREN

There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.
DYLAN LAUREN

My parents always told me, 'Do what you love because that is what you will do well in.' They...
DYLAN LAUREN

Summer is very precious.
DYLAN LAUREN

If these rich women from 5th Avenue spend a fortune on cashmere sweaters, they will come to my store...
DYLAN LAUREN

While I'm in L.A. I always make time for my favorite activity which is hiking. The trails in Cal...
DYLAN LAUREN

I always saw candy as art.
DYLAN LAUREN

I love accessorizing with jewelry.
DYLAN LAUREN

When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.
DYLAN LAUREN

Believe in yourself, listen to your gut, and do what you love.
DYLAN LAUREN

Candy is childhood, the best and bright moments you wish could have lasted forever.
DYLAN LAUREN

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.
BOB DYLAN

There are really four 'headlines' for me: honesty, integrity, hard work, and what I call a &...
DYLAN TAYLOR

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disa...
BOB DYLAN

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom.
BOB DYLAN

I am a picky eater. By that I mean, I love to pick the raisins out of oatmeal raisin cookies, the ch...
DYLAN LAUREN

I was terrified of the Vietnam War when I was 13. I thought I was going. The draft was such an omino...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going...
BOB DYLAN

Part of growing up is realizing you learn to love so many people. It's about forming those relat...
DYLAN O'BRIEN

I don't like to sing things that just sound like they're going straight down the tubes, and ...
JAKOB DYLAN

I guess my style is a cross between David Bowie and Clint Eastwood.
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

New York had a big influence on me growing up, and I was really part of the club scene - the Mudd Cl...
DYLAN MCDERMOTT

My husband is the cook at our house. I can make dessert and salad, but I stay away from meals. He ma...
DYLAN LAUREN

My dream dinner party guests would be Ethel Kennedy, Truman Capote and Hunter S. Thompson.
DYLAN PENN

Getting to wear Chanel is my version of a fairy tale. Not that I would wear it every day - my style ...
DYLAN PENN

When a chick has a sense of humor, there's nothing more attractive.
DYLAN O'BRIEN

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