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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.