The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory
Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.
You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence of my native land.
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.