One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world, and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writer would treat (say) the Catholic Church or the Church of Luther no matter how much he disliked them.

Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.