The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.

For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

Education is not about filling a pail, it's about lighting a fire.