There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

The philosophic mind inclines always to an elaborate life--the life of Goethe or of Leonardo da Vinci; but the life of the poet isintense--the life of Blake or of Dante--taking into its centre the life that surrounds it and flinging it abroad again amid planetary music.

My intention was to write a chapter of the moral history of my country and I chose Dublin for the scene because that city seemed to me the centre of paralysis.

Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.

The mocker is never taken seriously when he is most serious.

I am proud to be an emotionalist.