Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn't worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value.

It would be about as easy for an American to become a Chinaman or a Hindoo as for him to acquire an Englishness or a Frenchness or a European-ness that is more than half skin deep.

The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good.

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

No picture is made to endure nor to live with but it is made to sell and sell quickly with usura, sin against nature, is thy bread ever more of stale rags is thy bread dry as paper.

What counts is the cultural level