"I do not know what age I am, I am no mortal age; I know nothing of women, Nothing of cities, I cannot die Unless I wa…"

"Mullahinsa, Drummeril, Black Shanco- Wherever I turn I see In the stony grey soil of Monaghan Dead loves that were bo…"

"I loved too much and by such and such is happiness thrown away."

"I inclined To lose my faith in Ballyrush and Gortin Till Homer's ghost came whispering to my mind. He said: I made th…"

"O commemorate me where there is water, Canal water, preferably, so stilly Greeny at the heart of summer. Brother Comm…"

"The headlands and the hedges were so fresh and wonderful, so gay with the dawn of the world. Tarry never tired lookin…"

"They were both more than twenty-seven in those enthusiastic years of nineteen hundred and thirty-five, yet neither ha…"

"With women in general he was truthful and sincere and would talk philosophy or Canon Law (Canon Law fascinated him, t…"

"In country places a single word is inflected to mean a hundred things, so that only a recording of the sounds gives a…"

"'I was talking to one of the McArdles there and I was telling him that he ought to be getting a women. "Huh," says he…"