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Chaos is the first condition. Order is the first law. Continuity is the first reflection. Quietude is the first happiness.

A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.

The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.

I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my mind.

A secret is a weapon and a friend.

But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than religious.

Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies.

I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.

The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat about death.

Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?

Men come of age at sixty, women at fifteen.

Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.

Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.

Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory

When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked.

Quietness is the beginning of virtue. To be silent is to be beautiful. Stars do not make a noise.

The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if faulty decisions are promulgated?

By having much, you are fitted to have more.

Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.

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

You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.

Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows.

To understand the theory which underlies all things is not sufficient. Theory is but the preparation for practice.

A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.

God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper business of a woman.

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow

A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without an outside.

It is by love alone that we understand anything

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

We are washed both on coming into the world and on going out of it, and we take no pleasure from the first washing nor any profit from the last.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it, said the Philosopher.

Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.

The mysteries of death and birth occupy women far more than is the case with men, to whom political and mercantile speculations are more congenial.

Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?

In truth we do not go to Faery, we become Fairy, and in the beating of a pulse we may live for a year or a thousand years.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.