Dylan Thomas

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• The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in.

  Poetic Manifesto (1951)

  • Poetry

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

  Poetic Manifesto (1951)

  • God
  • Poetry

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

  Fern Hill (1946), St. 6

  • Time
  • Youth

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