An alcoholic is someone you don't like, who drinks as much as you do.
Poetry is not the most important thing in life... I'd much rather lie in a hot bath reading Agatha Christie and sucking sweets.
I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentenc...
Somebody's boring me I think it's me.
Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.
Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon.She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow.Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?
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.
When one burns one's bridges, what a very nice fire it makes.
The function of posterity is to look after itself.
Hands have not tears to flow.
He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
Though lovers be lost love shall not.
Though lovers be lost, love shall not; And death shall have no dominion.
This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.
Do not go gentle into that good night.
[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet.
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 an...
Do not go gentle into that good night Old age should burn and rave at close of day Rage rage against the dying of the light.
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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...