The ambition of the Irish is to say a thing as everybody says it, only louder.

For human nature, being more highly pitched, selved, and distinctive than anything in the world, can have been developed, evolved, condensed, from the vastness…

I consider my selfbeing ... that taste of myself, of I and me above and in all things, which is more distinctive than the taste of ale or alum, more distinctiv…

Searching nature I taste self but at one tankard, that of my own being.

Superficial nonconformism... leaves our rational structures indifferent. Questions of moral action and of physical appearance are increasingly irrelevant; they…

Je voudrais, un jour, avoir un nom si connu, si populaire, si celebre, si glorieux enfin, qu'il m'authorisat, a p[eter] dans le monde, et que le monde trouvat …

There is no pulse so sure of the state of a nation as its characteristic art product which has nothing to do with its material life. (New York: Liveright, 1970…