We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

There is only one romance the Soul's.

We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women with. Letter to Olivia Shakespeare, 1936

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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.

O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.