Consider the way of the scientists rather than the way of an advertising agent for a new soap.

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

All great art is born of the metropolis.

Poetry is a language pared down to its essentials.

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

The temple is holy because it is not for sale.

And the good writer chooses his words for their 'meaning', but that meaning is not a a set, cut-off thing like the move of knight or pawn on a chess-board. It comes up with roots, with associations, with how and where the word is familiarly used, or where it has been used brilliantly or memorably.