If a patron buys from an artist who needs money (needs money to buy tools, time, food), the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.

The intellect is a very nice whirligig toy, but how people take it seriously is more than I can understand.

The flavors of the peach and the apricot are not lost from generation to generation. Neither are they transmitted by book learning.

I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later.

Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.

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

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