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

Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

A poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

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.

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.