From the raging moon I write
On these spindrift pages
Nor for the towering dead
With their nightingales and psalms" - Meaning and context.">

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

— Dylan Thomas

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "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" in the context of "In my craft or sullen art (1946)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Dylan Thomas

About Dylan Thomas

Dylan Marlais Thomas (27 October 1914 – 9 November 1953) was a Welsh poet and writer.