An alcoholic is someone you don't like who drinks as much as you do.
Dylan Thomas

But time has set its maggot on their track.
Dylan Thomas

Do not go gentle into that good night.
Dylan Thomas

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.
Dylan Thomas

Dylan talked copiously, then stopped. 'Somebody's boring me,' he said, 'I think it's me.'
Dylan Thomas

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.
Dylan Thomas

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

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Dylan Thomas

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.
Dylan Thomas

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

My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
Dylan Thomas

Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.
Dylan Thomas

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Dylan Thomas

Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas

The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Dylan Thomas

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

There is only one position for an artist anywhere; and that is upright.
Dylan Thomas

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.
Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.
Dylan Thomas

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