"Republics, Kingdoms, Soviets, Corporate States, Parliaments, are trash. [...] These men, whether six or six thousand, are the core of Ireland, are Ireland itself."

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

"An argument with a poet is a conversation with a madman."

"I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is hard enough."

"I have always been attracted to the abnormal."