I fell in love–that is the only expression I can think of–at once, and am still at the mercy of words, though sometimes now, knowing a little of their behaviour very well, I think I can influence them slightly and have even learned to beat them now and then, which they appear to enjoy. I tumbled for words at once….
There they were, seemingly lifeless, made only of black and white, but out of them, out of their own being, came love and terror and pity and pain and wonder and all the other vague abstractions that make our ephemeral lives dangerous, great, and bearable.
Dylan Thomas about his obsession with words. I completely agree with him and find comfort in the fact that there are other people out there, people before me, who find more than just the ordinary meanings in words.
(source of quote: http://grammar.about.com/b/2010/03/10/dylan-thomass-love-affair-with-words.htm who took it from Notes on the Art of Poetry)
Princess Gloss 
Dylan Thomas is a great poet. “Do not go gentle into that good night” is one of my favorite poems, and his reading of Faustus’ final lament in Marlowe’s classic is extraordinarily moving.
I completely agree. It’s hard to read anything that comes from him without getting emotional–really feeling the words deeply. If I could write half as well as he did, I would be an excellent poet.
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