We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.

There is no deformity But saves us from a dream.

What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.