Irish Poet Sayings

#1. Humanity is not a gift of nature, it is a spiritual achievement to be earned.

Richard Bach

#2. Books of the sages of the ages reflect upon in stages; like honey their words on the tongue give due savour."
{Source: A Green Desert Father}

Richard Mc Sweeney

#3. The headmaster's tie turns into a noose again, preventing blood from getting to his face

Neal Shusterman

#4. The Irish believed that gods, druids, poets, and others in touch with the magical world could be literal shape-shifters

Thomas Cahill

#5. Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.

Caroline Myss

#6. Not I, but the city teaches.

Socrates

#7. When I get lost in a book, I forget about all my problems because I'm so engrossed in the character's lives.

Kaitlyn Hoyt

#8. If I had to reflect on the finest classical male ballet dancers of my time, Vladimir Vasiliev of the Bolshoi and the Danish dancer Eric Bruhn were, I feel, without peer.

Jacques D'Amboise

#9. And the lesson was this; sit in the sun, head down, within a prickly vine, in a flickery light, or open light, and the world will come to you. The sky will come in its time, bringing rain, and the earth will rise through you, from beneath, and make you rich and make you full.

Ray Bradbury

#10. Because I think people must be the same everywhere. Only these people are in my bones.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#11. Only love, and not reason, yields kind thoughts.

Thomas Mann

#12. Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

Rachel Cusk

#13. Sedgewhisker appeared farther down. We need to get out

Erin Hunter

#14. We must be the compassion we wish to see in others!

Janet Gonzalez-Mena

#15. You all right'?" he said gruffly.
"Yeah," said Harry,
"No yer'he not," said Hagrid. "'Course yeh're not. But yeh will be.

J.K. Rowling

#16. I have a private theory, Sir, that there are no heroes and no monsters in this world. Only children should be allowed to use these words

Alfred De Vigny

#17. Irish improves a poet.

Sina Queyras