We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
Lady GregoryAnd my desire,' he said, 'is a desire that is as long as a year; but it is love given to an echo, the spending of grief on a wave, a lonely fight with a shadow, that is what my love and my desire have been to me.
Lady GregoryEvery trick is an old one, but with a change of players, a change of dress, it comes out as new as before.
Lady GregoryI was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and Patrick. And I have often been given the story of Oisin's journey to Tir-nan-Og, the Country of the Young, that is, as I am told, a fine place and everything that is good is in it.
Lady Gregory