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Sometimes the archaism of the language when it's spoken is why we are all in love with the Irish today.
People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death.
Genius can write on the back of old envelopes but mere talent requires the finest stationery available.
[On hearing that Clare Boothe Luce was invariably kind to her inferiors:] And where does she find them?
My education was the liberty I had to read indiscriminately and all the time, with my eyes hanging out.
The first step to expanding your reality is to discard the tendency to exclude things from possibility.
To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.
If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.
Stay awhile! 'Tis sweet,. . . The rare occasion, when our hearts can speak Our selves unseen, unseeing!
Remember, the serpent is still living in the Garden of Eden. Only the heterosexual couple was expelled.
My ideas had been taking a socialistic shape for many years; but they were lacking in definite outline.
I think the culture can absorb so many people writing poetry and trying to earn their living in poetry.
Who gives an empire, by the gift defeats All end of giving; and procures contempt Instead of gratitude.
Never does the human soul appear so strong as when it foregoes revenge, and dares to forgive an injury.
It is the duty of each one of us to be a holy woman. We shall have elevated aims, if we are holy women.
Real education must ultimately be limited to men who insist on knowing, the rest is mere sheep-herding.
People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf.
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
Theatre is poetry that rises from the book and becomes human enough to talk and shout, weep and despair
If the influence of luck is a delusion, then all I can say is that the delusion is virtually universal.
Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
What well-advised ear regards What earth can say? Thy words are gold, but thy rewards Are painted clay.
Let the earth look at me, and bless me, for now I am fecund and sacred, like the palms and the furrows.
Kiss the mouth which tells you, here, here is the world. This mouth. This laughter. These temple bones.
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.
There's no dearth of kindness In the world of ours; Only in our blindness We gather thorns for flowers.
The surest way of concealing from others the boundaries of one s own knowledge is not to overstep them.
I learned life were no dream I learned truth deceived Man is not God Life is a century Death an instant
a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman
The great religions are the ships, Poets the life boats. Every sane person I know has jumped overboard.
Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.
Music played at weddings always reminds me of the music played for soldiers before they go into battle.
She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.
Oh fair, oh sweet and holy as dew at morning tide, I gaze on thee, and yearnings, sad in my bosom hide.
Shepherds at the grange, Where the Babe was born, Sang with many a change, Christmas carols until morn.
Sit in reverie and watch the changing color of the waves that break upon the idle seashore of the mind.
A solid man of Boston; A comfortable man with dividends, And the first salmon and the first green peas.
It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, - always do what you are afraid to do.
Our god's name is Abraxas and he is God and Satan and he contains both the luminous and the dark world.
I am not bound over to swear allegiance to any master; where the storm drives me I turn in for shelter.
Silver is less valuable than gold, gold than virtue. [Lat., Vilius argentum est auro virtutibus aurum.]
It was a wine jar when the molding began: as the wheel runs round why does it turn out a water pitcher?
Whatever things injure your eye you are anxious to remove; but things which affect your mind you defer.
Refrain from asking what going to happen tomorrow, and everyday that fortune grants you, count as gain.
All else-valor, a good name, glory, everything in heaven and earth-is secondary to the charm of riches.
When you send a clerk on business to a distant province, a man of rigid morals is not your best choice.
Our Father which art in heaven - Stay there - And we will stay on earth - Which is sometimes so pretty.
The lullaby is the spell whereby the mother attempts to transform herself back from an ogre to a saint.
Nothing in the world delights a truly religious people so much as consigning them to eternal damnation.
A great part of human suffering has its root in the nature of man, and not in that of his institutions.