It's usually the stupid people that develop long illnesses. You need more than indolence and selfishness, you need endurance to make a good patient.

Far from his illness The wolves ran on through the evergreen forests, The peasant river was untempted by the fashionable quays; By mourning tongues The death of the poet was kept from his poems.

The only reason the Protestants and Catholics have given up the idea of universal domination is because they've realised they can't get away with it.

We all have these places where shy humiliations gambol on sunny afternoons.

To the man-in-the-street, who, I'm sorry to say, is a keen observer of life. The word Intellectual suggests straight away. A man who's untrue to his wife.

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

History is, strictly speaking, the study of questions; the study of answers belongs to anthropology and sociology.