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James Stephens Quotes

«Women and birds are able to see without turning their heads, and that is indeed a necessary provision for they are both surrounded by enemies»
«Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will.»
Author: James Stephens (Poet) | About: Bravery, Curiosity, Fear | Keywords: bravery
«Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.»
Author: James Stephens (Poet) | About: Originality | Keywords: consist
«What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow»
Author: James Stephens (Poet)
«Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.»
Author: James Stephens (Poet) | Keywords: finality, lumped, lumps
«Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera.»
Author: James Stephens (Poet) | About: Sleep
«A woman is a branchy tree and man a singing wind; and from her branches carelessly he takes what he can find.»
«Men come of age at sixty,women at fifteen.»
Author: James Stephens (Poet) | Keywords: come of age
«I would think until I found/ Something I can never find,/ Something lying on the ground,/ In the bottom of my mind.»
Author: James Stephens (Poet)
«If a person desires to be a humorist it is necessary that the people around him shall be at least as wise as he is, otherwise his humor will not be comprehended.»
Author: James Stephens (Poet)