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A good poem is a contribution to reality.

Dylan Thomas

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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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Life always offers you a second chance. is called tomorrow.
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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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Though lovers be lost love shall not.
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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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And I rose In rainy autumn And walked abroad in a shower of all my days.
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One Christmas was so much like another, in those years around the sea-town corner now and out of all sound except the distant speaking of the voices I sometimes hear a moment before sleep, that I can never remember whether it snowed for six days and six nights when I was twelve or whether it snowed for twelve days and twelve nights when I was six.
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Hands have not tears to flow.
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You just wait. I'll sin 'til I blow up!
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