“Originalitatea nu constă în a spune ce nu a mai spus nimeni, ci în a spune exact ceea ce gândești tu însuți.” — James Stephens Amor Copy Share Image
“A poem is a revelation, and it is by the brink of running water that poetry is revealed to the mind.” — James Stephens Poem Copy Share Image
A Leprecaun without a pot of gold is like a rose without perfume, a bird without a wing, or an inside without… — James Stephens Bird Copy Share Image
Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it. — James Stephens Beloved Copy Share Image
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows. — James Stephens Copy Share Image
I would think Until I found Something I can never find; - Something Lying On the ground, In the bottom Of my… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory — James Stephens Forgetfulness Copy Share Image
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. — James Stephens Death Copy Share Image
“The toxin generates the anti-toxin. The end lies concealed in the beginning. All bodies grow around a skeleton. Life is a petticoat… — James Stephens Death Copy Share Image
My three-thousand mile walk through Ireland convinced me of one thing - the possibility of organising a proper movement for the independence… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Because our lives are cowardly and sly, Because we do not dare to take or give, Because we scowl and pass each… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both… — James Stephens Birds Copy Share Image
There is no tragedy more woeful than the victory of hate, nor any attainment so hopelessly barren as the sterility of that… — James Stephens Achievement Copy Share Image
God did not need any assistance, but man did; bitterly he wanted it, and the giving of such assistance was the proper… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Any fool can wash himself, but every wise man knows that it is an unnecessary labour, for nature will quickly reduce him… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
“But outside of the North of Ireland there is no religious question, and in the North it is fundamentally more political than… — James Stephens Religion Copy Share Image
Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
In that wide struggle which we call Progress, evil is always the aggressor and the vanquished, and it is right that this… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The trouble of the king becomes the trouble of the subject, for how shall we live if judgement is withheld, or if… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
The inexorable compulsion of all things is towards health or destruction, life or death, and we hasten our joys or our woes… — James Stephens Copy Share Image
