I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.

It is often said that in Ireland there is an excess of genius unsustained by talent; but there is talent in the tongues.

Among the masked dandies of Edwardian comedy, Max Beerbohm is the most happily armored by a deep and almost innocent love of himself as a work of art.

It is the role of the poet to look at what is happening in the world and to know that quite other things are happening.

We do not wish to be better than we are, but more fully what we are.

Because of the influence of the cinema, most reports or stories of violence are so pictorial that they lack content or meaning. The camera brings them to our eyes, but does not settle them in our minds, nor in time.

I am under the spell of language, which has ruled me since I was 10.