If we can't be cordial to these creatures' fleece, I think that we deserve to freeze.

... we do not admire what we cannot understand.

Conscious writing can be the death of poetry.

I'm troubled. I'm dissatisfied. I'm Irish.

I see no reason for calling my work poetry except that there is no other category in which to put it.

Hindered characters / seldom have mothers / in Irish stories, but they all have grandmothers.

The self does not realize itself most fully when self-realization is its most constant aim.