237 Quotes by Dylan Thomas

Why do men think you can pick love up and re-light it like a candle? Women know when love is over.

Do not go gentle into that good night.

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

I make one image—though 'make' is not the right word; I let, perhaps, an image be 'made' emotionally in me and then apply to it what intellectual & critical forces I possess—let it breed another, let that image contradict the first, make, of the third image bred out of the other two together, a fourth contradictory image, and let them all, within my imposed formal limits, conflict.

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

I like to think of poetry as statements made on the way to the grave.

It is spring, moonless night in the small town, starless and bible-black, the cobbledstreets silent and the hunched courters'-and-rabbits' wood limping invisible down to the sloeblack, slow, black, crowblack, fishingboat-bobbing sea.

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

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.