“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.”
About This Quote
The more particular source of this is: ‘Notes on the Art of Poetry’ which appears in the linked above volume Modern Poets on Modern Poetry, page 202.
More from Dylan Thomas
“To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down…”
“This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving…”
“Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which Shall fall awake when cures and their itch…”
“Time passes. Listen. Time passes. Come closer now. Only you can hear the houses sleeping…”