If poetry were nothing but texture, [Dylan] Thomas would be as good as any poet alive. The what of his poems is hardly essential to their success, and the best and most brilliantly written pieces usually say less than the worst.

— Randall Jarrell Kipling, Auden & Co: Essays and Reviews 1935-1964 (1980)

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