very young people are true but not resounding instruments.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

the process of reading is reciprocal; the book is no more than a formula, to be furnished out with images out of the reader's mind.

I do like Italian graves; they look so much more lived in.

nothing is more restful than conformity.

... in general, the Anglo-Irish do not make good dancers; they are too spritely and conscious; they are incapable of one kind of trance or of being seemingly impersonal. And, for the formal, pure dance they lack the formality: about their stylishness (for they have stylishness) there is something impromptu, slightly disorderly.