I know we're not saints or virgins or lunatics; we know all the lust and lavatory jokes, and most of the dirty people; we can catch buses and count our change and cross the roads and talk real sentences. But our innocence goes awfully deep, and our discreditable secret is that we don't know anything at all, and our horrid inner secret is that we don't care that we don't.

Two of them were Welsh Nationalism. In spring 1936 Thomas met Caitlin Macnamara (b.

Although writing exclusively in the English language Thomas has been acknowledged as one of the most important Welsh poets of the 20th century. Thomas died on 9 November 1953 and his body was returned to Wales where he was buried at the village churchyard in Laugharne. In the 1950s Thomas travelled to America where his readings brought him a level of fame though his erratic behaviour and drinking worsened.