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...
I think my dad is a lot cooler than other dads. He still acts like he's still 17.
