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MTA New York City Transit in cooperation with the POETRY SOCIETY of AMERICA POETRY IN MOTION ® is a registered trademark of MTANew York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America. In My Craft or Sullen Art Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) From “In My Craft or Sullen Art” by Dylan Thomas, from Selected Poems 1934-1952. Copyright ©1952, 1953 by Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1955, 1956, 1957 by the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright ©1938, 1939, 1943, 1946, 2003 by New Directions Publishing Corporation. Reprinted by permission. Not for the proud man apart From the raging moon I write On these spindrift pages Nor for the towering dead With their nightingales and psalms But for the lovers, their arms Round the griefs of the ages, Who pay no praise or wages Nor heed my craft or art. From

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Page 1: From In My Craft or Sullen Art - The New York Timesgraphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/nyregion/20080607_ABOUT2.pdf · 6/7/2008  · MTA New York City Transit in cooperation with the

MTA New York City Transit in cooperation with the POETRY SOCIETY of AMERICA

POETRY IN MOTION® is a registered trademark of MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America.

In My Craft or Sullen ArtDylan Thomas(1914-1953)From “In My Craft or Sullen Art” by Dylan Thomas,from Selected Poems 1934-1952. Copyright ©1952,1953 by Dylan Thomas. Copyright © 1937, 1955,1956, 1957 by the Trustees for the Copyrights of Dylan Thomas. Copyright ©1938, 1939, 1943, 1946,2003 by New Directions Publishing Corporation.Reprinted by permission.

Not for the proud man apartFrom the raging moon I writeOn these spindrift pagesNor for the towering deadWith their nightingales and psalms

But for the lovers, their armsRound the griefs of the ages,Who pay no praise or wagesNor heed my craft or art.

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MTA New York City Transit in cooperation with the POETRY SOCIETY of AMERICA

POETRY IN MOTION® is a registered trademark of MTA New York City Transit and the Poetry Society of America.

We quarreledAlone Iturned away

from her dearface then Ifeared death

QuarrelGrace Paley1922-2007

“Quarrel” by Grace Paley, from Begin Again: Collected Poems.Copyright ©2000 by Grace Paley. Reprinted by permission ofFarrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. from In My Craft or Sullen Art.

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