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
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
Out of the sighs a little comes, But not of grief, for I have knocked down that Before the agony; the spirit grows, Forgets, and cries; A little comes, is tasted and found good....
Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.
the moment of a miracle is unending lightning ...
Do not go gentle into the good night. Old age should burn and rage at close of day.
Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.
Cold beer is bottled God.
Join the army and see the next world.
These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.
Love drips & gathers, but the fallen blood Shall calm her sores..." -Thomas, The Force that through the green fuse drives the flower.
The best poem is that whose worked-upon unmagical passages come closest, in texture and intensity, to those moments of magical accident.
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
The condition of the world today is such that most writers feel they cannot truthfully be "comic" about it.
I know in London a Welsh hairdresser who has striven so vehemently to abolish his accent that he sounds like a man speaking with the Elgin marbles in his mouth.