#OnThisDay 1948 Dylan: 'I want laughter in books, the sight, and smell, and sound of laughter.' #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1937 Dylan: ‘it sounds as though I’m trying to plead the notorious vagueness of the Dreamy Poet…but really I'm a complete nitwit when it comes to replying to people, organising anything, making any sort of deal’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1933 Dylan’s writing: ‘is good & bad, serious & comic… lucid or nonsensical by the turns of my whirligig mentality’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1948 Dylan: ‘thank you so much for asking us [to the party]: we wanted, such a lot, to have a few little quiet innocuous drinks and demurely to throw an armchair or two.’ #DylalnThomas

#OnThisDay 1936 Dylan: ‘When I read the letter I had a cold and a hangover and rheumatism in the elbow...I couldn’t write seriously, and I didn’t want to see Shirley Temple, and all my friends were dead.’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1939 Dylan: 'Sorry for the delay & for the single poem, meant to send you a couple. I haven't been able to work during the last week because of my new, red son.' #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1939 Dylan on his new son: ‘He’s in the room with me now, making noises to his fingers, his eyes unfocusing, with his red skull half-covered in golden cotton. He and Caitlin came back from hospital today.’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1940 Dylan: ‘[Thank you] for the present for Llewelyn, who is an intolerable dandy and shames his stained and smoky father… he also had …the most menacing lunatic doll… that I have ever seen - with a twitching head and revolving ears’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1938 Dylan goes to London 'and read some poems to night-students of the university…some looked like lemons, and all spoke with the voices of puddings.' #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1938 Dylan explains ‘Poem (for Caitlin)’: 'I can give you a very rough idea of the 'plot'. But of course it's bound to be superficial … the ‘plot’ is told in images, & the images are what they say, not what they stand for.' #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1950 Dylan requests a cheque is sent to him ‘& not to my Bank, with whom I am having a little overdraft trouble’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1940 Dylan to Laurence Pollinger: ‘I’m tired of appearing in American highbrow papers that pay with love & stamps.’ #DylanThomas

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#OnThisDay 1937 Dylan: ‘I’d write lots more, but my fingers are decomposing, and I must keep enough strength to…give bread to the starlings.’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1937 Dylan: ‘this evening, like a fallen cherub at my window facing the park, I’m writing to you…’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1941 Dylan: ‘I offend enough people I meet, especially my friends, without giving annoyance to total strangers.’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1939 Dylan: ‘I’m worried and lazy and morose, I’ve got a hundred headaches and a barbed mouth’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1939 Dylan: 'half a poem's on my table, and that's all' #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1936 Dylan writes to Edith Sitwell on: ‘horrid paper; I had some Sweet Nell of Old Drury Bond but I’ve lost her.’ #DylanThomas

#OnThisDay 1939 Dylan is 'counting the patterns on the wc floor to see if I can work out a system for my football pools' #DylanThomas