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After the first death, there is no other.

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Dylan Thomas
Age: 39 †
Born: 1914
Born: October 27
Died: 1953
Died: November 9
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Dylan Marlais Thomas
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The closer I move To death, one man through his sundered hulks, The louder the sun blooms And the tusked, ramshackling sea exults.
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And time cast forth my mortal creature To drift or drown upon the seas Acquainted with the salt adventure Of tides that never touch the shores. - I who was rich was made the richer By sipping at the the vine of days.
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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.
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... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world.
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Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.
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My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
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In the beginning was the word, the word That from the solid bases of the light Abstracted all the letters of the void.
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A horrid alcoholic explosion scatters all my good intentions like bits of limbs and clothes over the doorsteps and into the saloon bars of the tawdriest pubs.
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My tears are like the quiet drift of petals from some magic rose and all my grief flows from the rift of unremembered skies and snows. I think that if I touched the earth, it would crumble it is so sad and beautiful, so tremulously like a dream.
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I think, that if I touched the earth, It would crumble It is so sad and beautiful, So tremulously like a dream.
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He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.
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Too many of the artists of Wales spend too much time talking about the position of theartists of Wales.There is only one position for an artist anywhere: and that is, upright.
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... Rebel against the flesh and bone, The word of the blood, the wily skin, And the maggot no man can slay.
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And now, gentlemen, like your manners, I must leave you.
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