Dylan Thomas Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

“I've just had eighteen straight whiskies. I think that's the record.”

“Washington isn't a city, it's an abstraction.”

“The land of my fathers. My fathers can have it.”

“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.”

“The function of posterity is to look after itself.”

“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.”

“Never be lucid, never state, if you would be regarded great.”

“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.”

“But time has set its maggot on their track.”