I heard the old old men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away like the waters.'
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...
The most positive men are the most credulous.
In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It...
No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.
Prejudices are so to speak the mechanical instincts of men: through their...
There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish.
