 Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. |
| Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. |
| The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. |
| People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. |
| Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. |
| Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. |
| Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. |
| This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air. |
| I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. |
| You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. |
| Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. |
| Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. |
| But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. |
| Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. |
| Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. |
| Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. |
| A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. |
| Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. |
| I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. |
| In dreams begins responsibility. |
