What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow. — James Stephens Heart Copy Share Image
To work is nothing; the king on his throne, the priest kneeling before the Holy Altar, all people in all places had… — James Stephens Altar Copy Share Image
We get wise by asking questions, and even if these are not answered, we get wise, for a well-packed question carries its… — James Stephens Answer 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
When a woman speaks to a man about the love she feels for another man, she is not liked. — James Stephens About 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 Convinced 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 Bottom Copy Share Image
Under all wrongdoing lies personal vanity or the feeling that we are endowed and privileged beyond our fellows. — James Stephens Beyond 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 Becomes Copy Share Image
“There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in other… — James Stephens Good and evil 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 All things 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 Always 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 After 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
“There is a difference between this world and the world of Faery, but it is not immediately perceptible. Everything that is here… — James Stephens Faery 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 Knowing Copy Share Image
“He saw a square room furnished as a library. The entire section of the walls which he could spy was covered from… — James Stephens Books 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 Again Copy Share Image
