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Every device there is in language is there to be used, if you will. Poets have got to enjoy themselves sometimes, and the twistings and convolutions of words, the inventions and contrivances, are all part of the joy that is part of the painful, voluntary work.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Device Enjoy Every Got Inventions Joy Language Painful Part Poets Sometimes Themselves Used Voluntary Will Words Work You

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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

Topics: Damn Doubts Fool God Love Man Poems Praise Were Written

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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.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Always Appear Bad Certainty Conviction Harsh Least Lends Poems Some Sort Then Things Think Too Until

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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.

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Alone Any Because Become Crash Feel Find Gate Go Impulse May Need Party Private Public Quite Read Thinking Tom True Will Written You Yourself

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

~Dylan Thomas

Topics: Great Lucid Never Regarded State Would You

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Biography

Nationality: Welsh

Type: Poet

Born: October 27th, 1914

Died: November 9th, 1953

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