Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

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

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.