We are lived by powers we pretend to understand.

If the most significant characteristic of man is the complex of biological needs he shares with all members of his species, then the best lives for the writer to observe are those in which the role of natural necessity is clearest, namely, the lives of the very poor.

Sob, heavy world Sob as you spin, Mantled in mist Remote from the happy.

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

To be free is often to be lonely.

Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

The true men of action in our time, those who transform the world, are not the politicians and statesmen, but the scientists