69 Quotes About Irish-poet

Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew.

No, there's nothing half so sweet in life as love's young dream.

It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury.

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

Plants that wake when others sleep. Timid jasmine buds that keep their fragrance to themselves all day, but when the sunlight dies away let the delicious secret out to every breeze that roams about.

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat.

Because there is a sort of amorphous, sort of darkness at the heart of things, because there is a certain kind of complacency and individualism.

A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.