Wars in old times were made to get slaves. The modern implement of imposing slavery is debt.
This is no book. Whoever touches this touches a man.
Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family – Oh how hideous it is To see three generations of one house gathered together! It is like an old tree with shoots, And with some branches rotted and falling.
That text is known to them that have the patience to read it, possibly one one-hundredth of one percent of the denizens. They forget it, all save a few Western states. I think somebody in Dakota once read it. The Constitution.
There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.
What counts is the cultural level.
Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry.
And in the mean time my songs will travel, And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them when they have got over the strangeness.
I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.
The man who fears war and squats opposing My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson But is fit only to rot in womanish peace.
What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov’st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov’st well is thy true heritage.
Presentation, not reference...
The ant’s a centaur in his dragon world.
Liberty is not a right but a duty.
The age demanded an image Of its accelerated grimace, Something for the modern stage, Not, at any rate, an Attic grace.
Properly, we should read for power.
I dunno what my 23 infantile years in America signify. I left as soon as motion was autarchic – I mean my motion.
From the colour the nature And by the nature the sign! Beatific spirits welding together As in one ash-tree in Ygdrasail.
The primary pigment of poetry is the IMAGE.
In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality – the principle of order versus the split atom.