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I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":38,"quote_text":39,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":33,"author":40,"source":41,"quote_tag":42,"commentary":9},3648672,"No honest writer today can possibly avoid being influenced by Freud through his pioneering work into the Unconscious and by the influence of those discoveries on the scientific, philosophic, and artistic work of his contemporaries: but not, by any means, necessarily through Freud's own writing.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":44,"quote_text":45,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":33,"author":46,"source":47,"quote_tag":48,"commentary":9},3648671,"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.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":50,"quote_text":51,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":33,"author":52,"source":53,"quote_tag":54,"commentary":9},3648670,"Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":56,"quote_text":57,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":33,"author":58,"source":59,"quote_tag":60,"commentary":9},3648669,"The first poems I knew were nursery rhymes, and before I could read them for myself, I had come to love just the words of them, the words alone.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":62,"quote_text":63,"author_id":5,"source_id":32,"has_image":33,"author":64,"source":65,"quote_tag":66,"commentary":67},3648668,"Though lovers be lost, love shall not.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nThis iconic quote is from Dylan Thomas's poem \"And Death Shall Have No Dominion\" (1933), one of his most celebrated works. 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This is the world. Have faith.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":87,"quote_text":88,"author_id":5,"source_id":23,"has_image":33,"author":89,"source":90,"quote_tag":91,"commentary":9},2992061,"To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man’s work.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":93,"totalPages":94,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":95},1,24,10]