He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Category Archive: Dylan Thomas
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
An alcoholic is someone you don’t like who drinks as much as you do.
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.
Great is the hand that holds dominion over man by a scribbled name.
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.
The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.
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.
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.
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.