68 Quotes by James Stephens

Every child knows that every grown female person in the world has authority to wash children and to give them food; that is what grown people were made for,

Be at peace all of you, for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the strange away in the night.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

L'amore ci rende poveri. Non ci bastano gli occhi per vedere tutto ciò che è da vedere, né le mani per stringere un decimo di tutto ciò che desidereremmo. Quando la guardo negli occhi mi tormento perché non posso guardare le sue labbra, e quando vedo le sue labbra la mia anima grida: "Guarda i suoi occhi, guarda i suoi occhi!".

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Why do you live on the bank of a river?' was one of these questions.'Because a poem in a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.

Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.