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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.
Men are governed by lines of intellect – women: by curves of emotion.
Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment.
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.
I think a child should be allowed to take his father’s or mother’s name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.
Think you’re escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.
I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.
Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse.
I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.