Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry.

Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for.

Believe that a further shore is reachable from here.

Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained.

Anyone with gumption and a sharp mind will take the measure of two things: what's said and what's done.

I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

History says, Don’t hope On this side of the grave, But then, once in a lifetime The longed-for tidal wave Of justice can rise up, And hope and history rhyme

Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it.

All I know is a door into the dark

I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center.

Oh, readers. If only you knew what we've gone through for you.

In the hope that people can change.

If a man doesn't know how to dance he doesn't know how to make love, there I said it!

Tequila is my salmon.

I'm not in the business of harassing anybody

We were sent to Vietnam to kill Communism. But we found instead that we were killing women and children.

Christianity, boring? So is television...if we don't plug in.

One day, someone who'll understand your good points and bad points, but who'll love you just the same, will appear in your life. Mark my words!

Magic exists if you allow it. If you open yourself up to it.

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.