David Hughes outside Swansea station where his phrase is inscribed Plaid Cymru hoped the essence of one of the most famous exports Wales entered the title of his election manifesto must - ambition is critical-', the poet Dylan Thomas.Start the sharing key document could have known it not the fix above.
It turns out the phrase it attributed to Thomas was the work a little less famous poet - David Hughes.
Plaid said that it had told me it was Thomas's work, and it is now correct the manifesto online.
The document is the party policy is written for the Assembly election on 5 May and direct reference to the range of Dylan Thomas.
"It reads:" Plaid's vision for what it, as the next decade the delivery reflected in the title of the document "Ambition is critical".
"As Wales is preparing a hundred years old in 2014 since the birth of Dylan Thomas, his words were adopted by Plaid as their guiding principle for the manifest and the next Welsh Government."
But the phrase "Ambition is of crucial importance" was the work of former social worker of David Hughes, 63. It was also in the cult comedy twin town, with Rhys Ifans.
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He was one of the three artists commissioned by Swansea Council 1992 poems celebrating "the magic of the place" produce.
Mr Hughes said it in response to the formulation "the graveyard of ambition"-a phrase often attributed to Thomas but, once again wrong write was inspired.
If the Plaid's error by the BBC Wales news website said, said Mr Hughes: "I'm not surprised." It is amusing and I think I'm flattered.
But he added: "they are not alone." "The offer is widely credited Dylan Thomas in the Internet."
Meanwhile, a Swansea Council spokesman confirmed the line by Mr Hughes, was written not Thomas.
Swansea University creative writing lecturer Nigel Jenkins said: "ambition is critical is a wonderful slogan for Plaid Cymru, have chosen for its election manifesto, but attributed to this phrase, Dylan Thomas, plaid leader Ieuan Wyn Jones starts a new urban myth on the back of the old hoary one."
Dylan Thomas, who died in 1953 in New York, remains one of the most famous sons of Wales"David's micro poem was a response to the infamous Swansea dead hand of the city as ' the graveyard of ambition '-describes years has were routinely wrongly, attributed to and Dylan Thomas."
"Dylan Thomas specialists at Swansea University inform me that there no evidence that he ever wrote, and spoke these words," said Mr Jenkins.
Mr Hughes is quote nor by Swansea Council - this time used in its Community strategy for 2010-14, "it is critical common ambition" title.
A Plaid Cymru spokesman said: "in our manifesto, we find that this Dylan Thomas was mantra and it is often the case these words, which in a number of publications, not least the Swansea University are attributed to him, why can the confusion primarily incurred."
"We were pointing out that this Association was correct, and if this is not the case then we clear to correct our online manifesto and to seek advice from elsewhere in the future confirm our literary allusions."
"But we can say that the guiding principle of the next Welsh Government should be these words to create a better Wales."
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