“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.” — Dylan Thomas | V2Melody

“Somebody's boring me. I think it's me.”

A self-deprecating expression of restless wit · Conversation, as commonly attributed

About Dylan Thomas

Dylan Thomas

27 October 1914–9 November 1953

Dylan Marlais Thomas stands as one of the most distinctive and influential voices in modern poetry, a writer whose work blazed with lyrical intensity and whose life burned with equal fervor. Born into the Welsh landscape that would forever shape his imagination, Thomas created a body of work that transcended national…

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“Give me a sheet of paper & I can’t help filling it in.”

A youthful admission of his irrepressible urge to write · Letter to Trevor Hughes, February 1933

Art
Poetry

“Poetry is what in a poem makes you laugh, cry, prickle, be silent, makes your toenails twinkle.”

Defining poetry through its immediate physical and emotional effect on the listener · Recorded talk, A Few Words of a Kind, 1952

“In this house Caitlin and I have our bedroom on the top floor, and so far we haven’t got up even when the German machines are over us like starlings.”

Meeting the danger of wartime air raids with characteristic dark humour · Letter to Vernon Watkins, 1940

Love
War