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Dylan Thomas Quotes about Sleep

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I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

I said some words to the close and holy darkness and then I slept.

Dylan Thomas
Sleep, Darkness, Holy
Dylan Thomas (1968). “Quite Early One Morning”, p.21, New Directions Publishing

Now behind the eyes and secrets of the dreamers in the streets rocked to sleep by the sea, see the titbits and topsyturvies, bobs and buttontops, bags and bones, ash and rind and dandruff and nailparings, saliva and snowflakes and moulted feathers of dreams, the wrecks and sprats and shells and fishbones, whale-juice and moonshine and small salt fry dished up by the hidden sea.

Dylan Thomas
Dream, Sleep, Eye
Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.22, New Directions Publishing

Sleeping as quiet as death, side by wrinkled side, toothless, salt and brown, like two old kippers in a box.

Dylan Thomas
Sleep, Two, Salt
Dylan Thomas (1954). “Under Milk Wood: A Play for Voices”, p.19, New Directions Publishing

One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.

Dylan Thomas
Sleep, Night, Years
A Child's Christmas in Wales (1954) p. 5

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