Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet black bough.

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

Poetry is a sort of inspired mathematics, which gives us equations, not for abstract figures, triangles, squares, and the like, but for the human emotions. If one has a mind which inclines to magic rather than science, one will prefer to speak of these equations as spells or incantations; it sounds more arcane, mysterious, recondite.

The technique of infamy is to start two lies at once and get people arguing heatedly over which is the truth.

Allow me to say that I would long since have committed suicide had desisting made me a professor of Latin.

If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays.