History is written by the rich, and so the poor get blamed for everything.
I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.
There is many a man without learning will get the better of a college-bred man, and will have better words, too.
It is better to be tied to any thorny bush than to be with a cross man.
We would not give up our own country - Ireland - if we were to get the whole world as an estate, and the Country of the Young along with it.
It's best make changes little by little, the same as you'd put clothes upon a growing child.
It was among farmers and potato diggers and old men in workhouses and beggars at my own door that I found what was beyond these and yet farther beyond that drawingroom poet of my childhood in the expression of love, and grief, and the pain of parting, that are the disclosure of the individual soul.
We are the mediocre, we are the half givers, we are the half lovers, we are the savourless salt. Break the hard crust of complacency. Quicken in us the sharp grace of desire.
Judgement of beauty can err, what with the wine and the dark.
He (Roberto Clemente) is a hero to me.
Flowers so strictly belong to youth, that we adult men soon come to feel, that their beautiful generations concern not us: we havehad our day; now let the children have theirs. The flowers jilt us, and we are old bachelors with our ridiculous tenderness.