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Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1) QUOTES

Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1) QUOTES

1 " It takes a village to raise a child, they say, and it takes a community to raise a genius, no matter how singular the individual. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

2 " Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

3 " It is inner duty, not outer achievement, that wins peace. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

4 " In ancient Ireland the soul had but to stretch out its arms to fill them with beauty. Now all manner of ugliness besets the world. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

5 " Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

6 " Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

7 " You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

8 " A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

9 " Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

10 " All our lives, we long, we long, thinking it is the moon we long for. So how, when we meet it in the shape of a most fair woman, can we do less than leave all others for her?” WB Yeats "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

11 " You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

12 " When looked at from the woman’s side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

13 " When life disappoints, one must apply one’s will, not crumple. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

14 " He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

15 " He has been preparing his life and his poetry for just such a woman, just such intermingling of beauty and sorrow and mystery. But a woman like her will not settle into the role of helpmeet or muse; she is too adventurous, too vital, too fond of sensation. She will want to be, an ally. An equal. What can he, a poor student of poetry, offer her? Only his words. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

16 " When one is busy, as she was in Donegal, life whistles by. One struggles to keep up with oneself. It is vital, when one slows down, to be conscious of small things, small moments. To take pains. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

17 " Women come more easily to that wisdom which ancient peoples, and all wild peoples even now, think the only wisdom. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

18 " He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

19 " We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)

20 " Here he finds his present. He will live in his love and the day as it passes, he vows. He will live that his personal law might be fulfilled. He feels himself fill with this truth. The saints on the one hand, the animals on the other, live in the moment as it passes. To this, his days have brought him. This is the one grain they have ground. But to grind one such grain is enough for a lifetime. "

― Orna Ross , Her Secret Rose (The Yeats-Gonne Trilogy Book 1)