“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
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I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.
