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

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

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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.

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

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

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The grief of the keen is no personal complaint for the death of one woman over eighty years, but seems to contain the whole passionate rage that lurks somewhere in every native of the island.

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In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

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

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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

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Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: April 16th, 1871

Died: March 24th, 1909

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