“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
Future“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
Poetry“I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.”
Future“Better pass boldly into that other world, in the full glory of some passion, than fade and wither dismally with age.”
Age“Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art it is the part the schools cannot recognize.”
Art“I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.”
Age“Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.”
Home“Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.”
Saintpatricksday“Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.”
Romantic“I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.”
Fear“Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.”
Friendship“Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.”
Men“Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.”
Poetry“The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
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