You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words.
— Dylan Thomas
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You can tear a poem apart to see what makes it technically tick... You're back with the mystery of having been moved by words. The best craftsmanship always leaves holes and gaps in the works of the poem so that something that is not in the poem can creep, crawl, flash, or thunder in. The joy and function of poetry is, and was, the celebration of man, which is also the celebration of God.
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• Poetic Manifesto
• Source: Wikiquote: "Dylan Thomas" (Quotes)
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Name: Maritime Quarter, Swansea - geograph
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Description: Cymraeg: Cerflun o Dylan Thomas, tu allan i Theatr Dylan Thomas, Abertawe English: Maritime Quarter: Swansea. A statue of Dylan Thomas, outside the Dylan Thomas Theatre at the Marina, Swansea.
Date: 17 August 2006
Source: Cymraeg: O geograph.org.uk English: From geograph.org.uk
Author: Pam Brophy
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