Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.