Dylan Thomas was born on this day in 1914. Here are two of his quotations that aren't from poems.


"[Poets are] men stepping on clouds, snaring a world of beauty from the trees and sky, half wild, half human."

"The heat! It comes round corners at you like an animal with windmill arms. As I enter my bedroom, it stuns, thuds, throttles, spins me round by my soaking hair, lays me flat as a mat and bat-blind on my boiled and steaming bed. We keep oozing from the ice-cream counters to the chemist's. Cold beer is bottled God."