Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Lord, heap miseries upon us yet entwine our arts with laughters low.
If we could only live on good food like that, he said to her somewhat loudly, we wouldn't have the country full of rotten teeth and rotten guts. Living in a bogswamp, eating cheap food and the streets...
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.
The peace of the gardens and the kindly lights in the windows poured a tender influence into his restless heart.
Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
The artist, like the God of creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails
Read your own obituary notice; they say you live longer. Gives you second wind. New lease of life.
Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
A dark horse riderless, bolts like a phantom past the winning post, his mane moonflowing, his eyeballs stars.
The sacred pint alone can unbind the tongue...
And if he had judged her harshly? If her life were a simple rosary of hours, her life simple and strange as a bird's life, gay in the morning, restless all day, tired at sundown? Her heart simple and...
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
As you are now so once were we.
Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.
Her antiquity in preceding and surviving succeeding tellurian generations: her nocturnal predominance: her satellitic dependence: her luminary reflection: her constancy under all her phases, rising an...
To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom.
He laughed to free his mind from his mind's bondage.
He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.