"In a battle like Ireland's, which is one of poverty against wealth, we must prove our sincerity by making ourselves unpopular to wealth. We must accept the baptism of the gutter."

"How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress?"

"I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness."

"I am a man of visions."

"No man who deserts his own literature for another's can hope for the highest rank. The cradles of the greatest writers are rocked among the scenes they are to celebrate. Wherever an Irish writer has s…"