Brendan Dowd

“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

“Hearts are not to be had as a gift, hearts are to be earned.”
― W.B. Yeats

“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”
― William Butler Yeats

“The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.”
― W.B. Yeats