Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through...
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school -...
If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.
I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in...
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall...
We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with...
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to...
There's no love more intense than the love we have for our kids - and where there is intense love there is also intense fear lurking beneath the surface.
