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The hand that signed the paper felled a city;
Five sovereign fingers taxed the breath,
Doubled the globe of dead and halved a country;
These five kings did a king to death.

— Dylan Thomas

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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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