Dylan Thomas
Dylan Thomas
Dylan Marlais Thomaswas a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion"; the 'play for voices' Under Milk Wood; and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his premature death at the age of 39 in New York City. By...
NationalityWelsh
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth27 October 1914
CitySwansea, Wales
Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
There is only one po- sition for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.
The force that through the green fuse drives the flower drives my green age.
A truly comic, invented world must live at the same time as the world we live in.
I liked the taste of beer, its live, white lather, its brass-bright depths, the sudden world through the wet-brown walls of the glass, the tilted rush to the lips and the slow swallowing down to the lapping belly, the salt on the tongue, the foam at the corners.
But oh, San Francisco! It is and has everything - you wouldn't think that such a place as San Francisco could exist.
A good poem is a contribution to reality.
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.
Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.
Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means, Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.
And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days...
The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
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.