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Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light

  1. Two lines from a poem by the twentieth-century Welsh poet Dylan Thomas, addressed to his father, who was dying.



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Poet Dylan Thomas famously admonished his readers, “Do not go gentle into that good night. Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

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Another sign quoted Dylan Thomas: “Do not go gentle into that good night. / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

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“On Wednesday, I felt that country slipping further away. And it was dark. But then I remembered the words of Dylan Thomas, Do not go gentle into that good night … rage, rage, against the dying of the light.”

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Welsh poet Dylan Thomas famously advised us “Do not go gentle into that good night/Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

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The poet from whom Robert Zimmerman borrowed his stage name, Dylan Thomas, famously advised us: “Do not go gentle into that good night / Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

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