And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

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.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

Hammer your thoughts into unity.

Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream.

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.