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James Stephens, author - From the Curiosity category:
Curiosity will conquer fear even more than bravery will. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Gender category:
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. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the History category:
History is the complement of poetry. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Humour category:
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. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Love category:
It is by love alone that we understand anything. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Memory category:
Let the past be content with itself, for man needs forgetfulness as well as memory. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Opposites category:
There are more worlds than one, and in many ways they are unlike each other. But joy and sorrow, or, in other words, good and evil, are not absent in their degree from any of the worlds, for wherever there is life there is action, and action is but the expression of one or other of these qualities. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Originality category:
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Perfection category:
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Poetry category:
The duty of a lyrical poet is not to express or explain, it is to intensify life. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Sleep category:
Sleep is an excellent way of listening to an opera. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Thinking category:
I would think until I found / Something I can never find, / Something lying on the ground, / In the bottom of my mind. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Thought category:
A sword, a spade, and a thought should never be allowed to rust. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Understanding category:
What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow. (James Stephens, author)
James Stephens, author - From the Words category:
Speech and prose are not the same thing. They have different wave-lengths, for speech moves at the speed of light, where prose moves at the speed of the alphabet, and must be consecutive and grammatical and word-perfect. Prose cannot gesticulate. Speech can sometimes do nothing else. (James Stephens, author)
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