Irish poet and playwright
Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic can understand it.
There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.
Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Alas, I am dying beyond my means.
Art never harms itself by keeping aloof from the social problems of the day: rather, by so doing, it more completely realises for us that which we desire.
Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.
Our ambition should be to rule ourselves, the true kingdom for each one of us; and true progress is to know more, and be more, and to do more.
Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.