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.

— Dylan Thomas

The function of posterity is to look after itself.

— Dylan Thomas

The only sea I saw Was the seesaw sea With you riding on it. Lie down, lie easy. Let me shipwreck in your thighs.

— 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

This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.

— Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost love shall not.

— Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost, love shall not.

— Dylan Thomas

Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.

— Dylan Thomas

Time held me green and dying Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

— Dylan Thomas

When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.

— Dylan Thomas