Dylan Thomas Quotes about Life

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Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Oh, isn't life a terrible thing, thank God?

Dylan Thomas

Life, Thank God, Garters

'Under Milk Wood' (1954) p. 30

After the first death, there is no other.

Dylan Thomas

Life, Death, Firsts

A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London" l. 19 (1946)

It is the measure of my individual struggle from darkness toward some measure of light.

Dylan Thomas

Life, Struggle, Light

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; A little comes, is tasted and found good.

Dylan Thomas

Life, Grief, Agony

Dylan Thomas, Daniel Jones (2003). “The Poems of Dylan Thomas”, p.34, New Directions Publishing

The force that through the green fuse drives the flower Drives my green age; that blasts the roots of trees Is my destroyer. And I am dumb to tell the crooked rose My youth is bend by the same wintry fever.

Dylan Thomas

Life, Flower, Roots

"The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower" l. 1 (1934)