36 Quotes by Orna Ross

Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment.

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne

All our lives, we long, we long, thinking it is the moon we long for. So how, when we meet it in the shape of a most fair woman, can we do less than leave all others for her?” WB Yeats

You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.

When looked at from the woman’s side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning.

When life disappoints, one must apply one’s will, not crumple.

He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well.

He has been preparing his life and his poetry for just such a woman, just such intermingling of beauty and sorrow and mystery. But a woman like her will not settle into the role of helpmeet or muse; she is too adventurous, too vital, too fond of sensation. She will want to be, an ally. An equal. What can he, a poor student of poetry, offer her? Only his words.

When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains.