Welsh - Poet | October 27, 1914 - November 9, 1953
Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas
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I went on all over the States, ranting poems to enthusiastic audiences that, the week before, had been equally enthusiastic about lectures on Railway Development or the Modern Turkish Essay.
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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.
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I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.
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The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
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But time has set its maggot on their track.
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The function of posterity is to look after itself.
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Don't be too harsh to these poems until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction.
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Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
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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.
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Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.
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