Frequent and violent temptations were a proof that the citadel of the soul had not fallen and that the devil raged to make it fall..

If the Irish programme did not insist on the Irish language I suppose I could call myself a nationalist. As it is, I am content torecognize myself an….

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english..

To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom..

There is an atmosphere of spiritual effort here. No other city is quite like it. I wake early, often at 5 o'clock, and start writing at once..

Signatures of all things I am here to read..

That ideal reader suffering from an ideal insomnia..

I'd love to have the whole place swimming in roses.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery..

His eyes were dimmed with tears and, looking humbly up to heaven, he wept for the innocence he had lost..

He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to….

Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason wh….

The studious silence of the library ... Thought is the thought of thought. Tranquil brightness..

Her image had passed into his soul for ever and no word had broken the holy silence of his ecstasy. Her eyes had called him and his soul had leaped a….

The intellectual imagination! With me all or not at all. NON SERVIAM!.

A nation is the same people living in the same place..

I see the regions of snow and ice, I see the sharp-eyed Samoiede and the Finn, I see the seal-seeker in his boat poising his lance, I see the Siberia….

An Irishman needs three things : silence, cunnning, and exile..

Broken heart. A pump after all, pumping thousands of gallons of blood every day. One fine day it gets bunged up and there you are... Old rusty pumps:….

Ask no questions and you'll hear no lies..

Time is, time was, but time shall be no more..