237 Quotes by Dylan Thomas

I believe in New Yorkers. Whether they’ve ever questioned the dream in which they live, I wouldn’t know, because I won’t ever dare ask that question.

Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.

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

I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble; It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.

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.

I love you more than anybody in the world... I love you for millions and millions of things, clocks and vampires and dirty nails and squiggly paintings and lovely hair and being dizzy and falling dreams.

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

But time has set its maggot on their track.

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