Selected poems
A source page for quotes linked to George William Russell.
“There is a law in human nature which draws us to like what we passionately condemn.”
“A literary movement: five or six people who live in the same town and hate each other.”
“Whiskey: a torchligh procession marching down your throat.”
“You cannot evoke great spirits and eat plums at the same time.”
“Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.”
“Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.”