Controversial Sayings
6,263 sayings found from the Modern era
Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.
I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
School and college have been conducted with the almost express purpose of keeping him busy with something else till the danger of his ever creating anything is past.
It is absurd to think that the only way to tell if a poem is lasting is to wait and see if it lasts.
The right reader of a good poem can tell the moment it strikes him that he has taken an immortal wound-that he will never get over it.
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire, I hold with those who favor fire.
I have never started a poem yet whose end I knew. Writing a poem is discovering.
If poetry isn't understanding all, the whole world, then it isn't worth anything.
Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.
Republics, Kingdoms, Soviets, Corporate States, Parliaments, are trash. [...] These men, whether six or six thousand, are the core of Ireland, are Ireland itself.
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.
No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.
How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress?
The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
My own position is that an idealism or spiritualism which denies magic, and evil spirits even, and sneers at magicians and even mediums (the few honest ones) is an academical imposture.
Your Church has in this matter been far more thorough than the Protestant. It has never denied Ars Magica, though it has denounced it'.
To me all things are made of the conflict of two states of consciousness, beings or persons which die each other's life live each other's death.
Christ was still the half-brother of Dionysius.
Talk to me of originality and, I will turn on you with rage. I am a crowd, I am a lonely man, I am nothing. Ancient salt is best packing.