“Be at peace all of you, for hunger has a whip, and he will drive the strange away in the night.”
Source: Traditional Irish Fairy Tales
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Famous James Stephens Quotes
Source: The Crock of Gold
“I hear a sudden cry of pain! There is a rabbit in a snare.”
Source: The Poems of James Stephens
“Can a spear divine the Eternal Will?”
Source: The Crock of Gold
Source: Irish Fairy Tales
“Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?”
Source: The Crock of Gold
“Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.”
“You must be fit to give before you can be fit to receive.”
Source: The Crock of Gold
Source: A James Stephens Reader
Source: A James Stephens Reader
Source: A James Stephens Reader
“The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life.”
Source: The Poems of James Stephens
“What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.”
Source: The Crock of Gold
“It is by love alone that we understand anything”
Source: Traditional Irish Fairy Tales
“Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory”
Source: Irish Fairy Tales
“Tell me your past, my beloved, for a man is his past, and is to be known by it.”
Source: Irish Fairy Tales