Who hasn't danced in their underwear?
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things.
Create like a god, command like a king, work like a slave.
To see far is one thing, going there is another.
. . . That which they call abstract is the most realistic, because what is real is not the exterior but the idea, the essence of things.
Things are not difficult to make; what is difficult is putting ourselves in the state of mind to make them
Nothing grows well in the shade of a big tree.
What is tragic today is that there is a number of Muslims who think that all the solutions are to be found simply by external actions. They don't have to do anything within themselves. This is a deeply Western idea - modern, Western idea, where you try to improve the world without improving yourself. And this is what the Muslims who talk about others putting their heads in the sand and that "We are doing jihad and we are political" and so forth, they are emulating a very important mistake of modernism.
It is not possible to refer a complex difficulty to a single cause.
In England especially, poetry's woven into the background fabric of society. And in Ireland, it's in the foreground. The place of the poet in Irish society is enormous. If you say you're a poet in Ireland, you'd better know what you're doing, because the standard and the expectations are incredibly high.
Man is a multi-sensorial being. Occasionally he verbalizes … and we must seriously examine the implications of the fact that man does not communicate by word alone.