One detects creative power by its capacity to conquer one's detachment.

Among animals, one has a sense of humor. Humor saves a few steps, it saves years.

Originality is... a by-product of sincerity.

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

The weak overcomes its/ menace, the strong over-/comes itself.

Poetry, that is to say the poetic, is a primal necessity.

I am hard to disgust, but a pretentious poet can do it