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...
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature but by our institutions great is our sin.
