What thou lovest well remains,...

What thou lovest well remains, the rest is dross What thou lov'st well shall not be reft from thee What thou lov'st well is thy true heritage

The artist is always beginning...

The artist is always beginning. Any work of art which is not a beginning, an invention, a discovery is of little worth.

A great age of literature is p...

A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

The sum of human wisdom is not...

The sum of human wisdom is not contained in any one language.

The author's conviction on thi...

The author's conviction on this day of New Year is that music begins to atrophy when it departs too far from the dance; that poetry begins to atrophy when it gets too far from music; but this must not be taken as implying that all good music is dance music or all poetry lyric. Bach and Mozart are never too far from physical movement.

Poetry is a very complex art.....

Poetry is a very complex art.... It is an art of pure sound bound in through an art of arbitrary and conventional symbols.

In case I conk out, this is pr...

In case I conk out, this is provisionally what I have to do: I must clarify obscurities; I must make clearer definite ideas or dissociations. I must find a verbal formula to combat the rise of brutality--the principle of order versus the split atom.

In verse one can take any damn...

In verse one can take any damn constant one likes, one can alliterate, or assone, or rhyme, or quant, or smack, only one MUST leave the other elements irregular.

The man who fears war and squa...

The man who fears war and squats opposing
My words for stour, hath no blood of crimson
But is fit only to rot in womanish peace

install me in any profession

install me in any profession
Save this damn'd profession of writing,
where one needs one's brains all the time.

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There is no topicmore soporifi...

There is no topicmore soporific and generally boring than the topic of Ireland as Ireland, as a nation.

Learn of the green world what ...

Learn of the green world what can be thy place
In scaled invention or true artistry

I ask a wreathwhich will not c...

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head.
And there is no hurry about it;
I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral,
Seeing that long standing increases all things
regardless of quality.

Yet the companions of the Muse...

Yet the companions of the Muses
will keep their collective nose in my books
And weary with historical data, they will turn to my dance tune.

And in the mean time my songs ...

And in the mean time my songs will travel,
And the devirginated young ladies will enjoy them
when they have got over the strangeness

What counts is the cultural le...

What counts is the cultural level

Go to the adolescent who are s...

Go to the adolescent who are smothered in family--
Oh how hideous it is
To see three generations of one house gathered together!
It is like an old tree with shoots,
And with some branches rotted and falling.

Seems fairly clear that you fi...

Seems fairly clear that you fix a breed by LIMITING the amount of alien infiltration. You make a race by homogeneity and by avoiding INbreeding.... No argument has ever been sprouted against it. You like it in dogs and horses.

Take the serious side of Disne...

Take the serious side of Disney, the Confucian side of Disney. It's in having taken an ethoswhere you have the values of courage and tenderness asserted in a way that everybody can understand. You have got an absolute genius there. You have got a greater correlation of nature than you have had since the time of Alexander the Great.

The ant's a centaur in his dra...

The ant's a centaur in his dragon world. Pull down thy vanity, it is not man Made courage, or made order, or made grace, Pull down thy vanity, I say pull down. Learn of the green world what can be thy place In scaled invention or true artistry, Pull down thy vanity, Paquin pull down! The green casque has outdone your elegance.