I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

It seems to me you do not care what banality a man expresses so long as he expresses it in Irish.

I could call my wandering thoughts together. I had hardly any patience with the serious work of life which, now that it stood between me and my desire, seemed to me child's play, ugly monotonous child's play.

In woman's womb word is made flesh but in the spirit of the maker all flesh that passes becomes the word that shall not pass away. This is the postcreation.

He was unheeded, happy, and near to the wild heart of life