"No man who deserts his own literature for another's can hope for the highest rank. The cradles of the greatest writers are rocked among the scenes they are to celebrate. Wherever an Irish writer has s…"

"How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress?"

"The only thing that has been of real use to me is the study of the occult."

"The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too."

"The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write."