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I wanted to write poetry in the beginning because I had fallen in love with words.

— Dylan Thomas Poetic Manifesto (1951)

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A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him.

The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.

Poetic Manifesto (1951)

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

Fern Hill (1946)

After the first death, there is no other.

Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

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Not for the body, but for the heart; companion and company are needed.

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Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies,
And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise.

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