Welsh - Poet | October 27, 1914 - November 9, 1953
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas
GoodAgeLightGood NightNightGo
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
WorkRestBoredomWhoHeFinds
Though lovers be lost, love shall not.
LoveLostLoversThoughShall
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.
LoveAloneMyselfWordsFirstJust
An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
SomeoneYouWhoLikeMuchDrinks
Whatever talents I possess may suddenly diminish or suddenly increase. I can with ease become an ordinary fool. I may be one now. But it doesn't do to upset one's own vanity.
FoolVanityI CanNowUpsetBecome
As I read more and more - and it was not all verse, by any means - my love for the real life of words increased until I knew that I must live with them and in them, always. I knew, in fact, that I must be a writer of words, and nothing else.
LifeLoveLiveWordsNothingMore
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.
LoveGodFoolManDamnPraise
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
FireAngerBridgesNiceVeryMakes
Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
GreatYouNeverWouldStateLucid
There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
ArtistPositionOnlyAnywhere
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
EducationEyesTimeLibertyOutHad
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