Quotes from Dylan Thomas

Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.

I have never sat down and studied the Bible, never consciously echoed its language, and am, in reality, as ignorant of it as most brought-up Christians. All of the Bible that I use in my work is remembered from childhood and is the common property of all who were brought up in English-speaking communities.

My birthday began with the water - Birds and the birds of the winged trees flying my name.

Dark is a way and light is a place, Heaven that never was Nor will be ever is always true "Poem on His Birthday

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

Though they go mad they shall be sane, though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; though lovers be lost love shall not; and death shall have no dominion.

Chastity prays for me, piety sings, Innocence sweetens my last black breath, Modesty hides my thighs in her wings, And all the deadly virtues plague my death!

Break in the sun till the sun breaks down, And death shall have no dominion.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

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.

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower. Drives my green age that blasts the roots of trees is my destroyer.

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.

And death shall have no dominion. Dead men naked they shall be one With the man in the wind and the west moon; When their bones are picked clean and the clean bones gone, They shall have stars at elbow and foot; Though they go mad they shall be sane, Though they sink through the sea they shall rise again; Though lovers be lost love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

It is not their love for men but the impotence of their love for men which hinders the Christians of today from burning us

Love is like a faucet, you can turn it off an' on, But when you think you've got it, it's done turned off and gone

Love is the only weapon we need.

Though lovers be lost love shall not.