36 Quotes by Orna Ross

We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words.

It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual.

Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary.

Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life.

You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison.

A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician.

They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.

That thicket gave me my first thought of what a long poem should be. Its unpeopled, life-filled stillness, its silence held by the crash of breaking waves below. I thought of a poem as a place into which one could wander, away from the cares of life. I realized its characters should be as unreal, and as utterly real, as the shadows that people this thicket.

Where there’s life, there’s learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don’t harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don’t listen, we’ll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.