"Give me a sheet of paper & I can’t help filling it in. The result—more often than not—is good & bad, serious & comic, sincere & insincere, lucid or nonsensical by the turns of my whirligig mentality, started from the wrong end, a mentality that ran before it walked, & perhaps will never walk, that wanted to fly before it had the right even to think of wings." -- iconic Welsh poet and writer Dylan Thomas (10/27/1914 - 11/9/1953) in a letter to Trevor Hughes, February, 1933.
Author of such works as Under Milk Wood, Deaths and Entrances, Twenty Five Poems, 18 Poems, and of such famous lines as "And death shall have no dominion," and "Do not go gentle into that good night," Thomas's creative use of images and words divided contemporary critics, but in retrospect his body of work remains some of the most significant and groundbreaking of the 20th century.
(photo: Thomas in 1946. Hulton-Deutsch Collection/Corbis)
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