I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas as it were.
Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through...
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school -...
If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in...
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall...
We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with...
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to...
I heard the old old men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away like the...
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and...
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply...
The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions...
Out of Ireland have we come great hatred little room maimed us at the...
The years like great black oxen tread the world and God the herdsman goads...
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says Some people...
Think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such...
Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.
Take if you must this little bag of dreams Unloose the cord and they will...
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
But I being poor have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your...
In dreams begins responsibility.
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...
I balanced all brought all to mind the years to come seemed waste of breath...
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show...
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to...
Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon...
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to...
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by...
The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and...
The light of lights looks always on the motive not the deed the shadow of...
You that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this...
I am of a healthy long lived race and our minds improve with age.
