The oft-quoted line "After the first death, there is no other" comes from his poem "A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London," part of the collection Deaths and Entrances, which also contains his poem "Fern Hill.
Influenced by Blake's "The Sick Rose," he wrote the poem "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," which won him the publication of his first collection, 18 Poems. Some of his notable short stories are collected in Adventures in the Skin Trade. The oft-quoted line "After the first death, there is no other" comes from his poem "A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London," part of the collection Deaths and Entrances, which also contains his poem "Fern Hill." FTP, name this Welsh poet of "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night."
Influenced by Blake's "The Sick Rose," he wrote the poem "The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower," which won him the publication of his first collection, 18 Poems.
Dylan Thomas