The general knowledge of time ...

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

It is the timber of poetry tha...

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.

There is no language like the ...

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

Every article on these islands...

Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

All the rare and royal names

All the rare and royal names
Wormy sheepskin yet retains

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What is the price of a thousan...

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

A translation is no translatio...

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

It gave me a moment of exquisi...

It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

I'm a good scholar when it com...

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

A man who is not afraid of the...

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

As a man has no right to kill ...

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

At first I threw my weight upo...

At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and could follow my guide in any portion of the island.

They're cheering a young lad, ...

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

A low line of shore was visibl...

A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen but the mist curling in the rigging, and a small circle of foam.

Words, particularly in a play,...

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

In the middle classes the gift...

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

The general knowledge of time ...

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

It is the timber of poetry tha...

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.

In a good play every speech sh...

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

The drama, like the symphony, ...

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