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

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

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.

There is only one romance the Soul's.

Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.