A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression.

A classic is classic not because it conforms to certain structural rules, or fits certain definitions It is classic because of a certain eternal and irrepressible freshness.

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Poetry must be as well written as prose.

Your mind and you are our Sargasso Sea.

As a bathtub lined with white porcelain, When the hot water gives out or goes tepid, So is the slow cooling of our chivalrous passion, O my much praised but-not-altogether-satisfactory lady.

It is the business of the artist to make humanity aware of itself.