All Quotes

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. ”

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. ”

In dreams begins responsibility. ”

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ”

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ”

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. ”

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself. ”

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ”

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. ”

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. ”