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The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas

The original and classic The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas is available once again, now with a brilliant new preface by Paul Muldoon.The Collected Poems of Dylan Thomas contains poems that Thomas personally deci

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“To surrender now is to pay the expensive ogre twice. Ancient woods of my blood, dash down to the nut of the seas if I take to burn or return this world which is each man's work.”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: Surrender, Blood, Work

“This is the world: the lying likeness of Our strips of stuff that tatter as we move Loving and being loth; The dream that kicks the buried from their sack And lets their trash be honoured as the quick. This is the world. Have faith”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Faith, Dream

“Which is the world? Of our two sleepings, which Shall fall awake when cures and their itch Raise up this red-eyed earth?”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: World, Sleep, Awake

“This world is half the devil's and my own, Daft with the drug that's smoking in a girl And curling round the bud that forks her eye.”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: World, devil

“These are but dreaming men. Breathe, and they fade.”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: Dream, Dreaming, breathe, Fade

“Love drips & gathers, but the fallen blood Shall calm her sores..”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: Love, Blood, Wound

“Youth calls to age across the tired years: 'What have you found,' he cries, 'what have you sought?" 'What have you found,' age answers through his tears, 'What have you sought.”

— Dylan Thomas, amazon.com

Tagged: Youth, Age, Time