"Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“What can be shown?What true love be?All could be known or shownIf Time were but gone.”

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

“Those men that in their writings are most wiseOwn nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.”

“Humanity can live without science, it can live without bread, but it cannot live without beauty. Without beauty, there would be nothing left to do in this life. Here the secret lies. Here lies the entire story.”

“There are chemists who spend their whole lives trying to find out what's in a lump of sugar. I want to know one thing. What is color?”

“Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.”

“The mark of all good art is not that the thing done is done exactly or finely, for machinery may do as much, but that it is worked out with the head and the workman's heart.”

“If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.”

“For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make.”