"Words alone are certain good...." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“An age is the reversal of an age:When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone,We lived like men that watch a painted stage.What matter for the scene, the scene once gone:It had not touched our lives.”

“But stories that live longestAre sung above the glass,And Parnell loved his countryAnd Parnell loved his lass.”

“But O, sick children of the world,Of all the many changing thingsIn dreary dancing past us whirled,To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,Words alone are certain good.”

“Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together”

“A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.”

“No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object inches too low.”

“There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.”

“Report me and my cause aright.”

“A look which reveals inward stress adds more beauty to the face, no matter how much tragedy and pain it bespeaks; but the face which, in silence, does not announce hidden mysteries is not beautiful, regardless of the symmetry of its features.”