Who is Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer whose works include the poems "Do not go gentle into that good night" and "And death shall have no dominion", the "play for voices" Under Milk Wood, and stories and radio broadcasts such as A Child's Christmas in Wales and Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog. He became widely popular in his lifetime and remained so after his death at the age of 39 in New York City. By then, he had acquired a reputation, which he had encouraged, as a "roistering, drunken and doomed poet".Thomas was born in Swansea, Wales, in 1914. In 1931, when he was 16, Thomas, an undistinguished pupil, left school to become a reporter for the South Wales Daily Post. Many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager. I...
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Dylan Thomas Poems

• Love In The Asylum
  A stranger has come
  To share my room in the house not right in the head,
  A girl mad as birds
  ...
• Out Of The Sighs
  Out of the sighs a little comes,
  But not of grief, for I have knocked down that
  Before the agony; the spirit grows,
  Forgets, and cries; ...
• I Have Longed To Move Away
  I have longed to move away
  From the hissing of the spent lie
  And the old terrors' continual cry
  Growing more terrible as the day ...
• The Tombstone Told When She Died
  The tombstone told when she died.
  Her two surnames stopped me still.
  A virgin married at rest.
  She married in this pouring place, ...
• The Conversation Of Prayer
  The conversation of prayers about to be said
  By the child going to bed and the man on the stairs
  Who climbs to his dying love in her high room,
  The one not caring to whom in his sleep he will move ...

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Dylan Thomas Quotes

• Do not go gentle into that good night.
• Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
• I just drank eighteen whiskies. That must be a record.

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Comments about Dylan Thomas

• Keithboykin: if justice ketanji brown jackson had to recuse herself from the harvard affirmative action case, then clarence thomas should recuse himself from all the cases on right-wing issues in which his activist wife, ginni thomas, is involved.
• Shieldofpallas: me on twitter in 1803: yoooo thomas jeffergoat fleeced fraudpoleon with the louisiana purchase
• Haydiesque: reminds me dylan thomas' poetry
• Spennington33: activist group led by ginni thomas received nearly $600,000 in anonymous donations
• Fluxfm_berlin: 28.03. 18:31 uhr: better oblivion community center "dylan thomas"

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