我们爱尔兰人太诗意以至不能做诗人,我们的国家里充满才华横溢的失败者,可我们是自希腊人以来最伟大的说空话之人。
We Irish are too poetical to be poets; we are a nation of brilliant failures, but we are the greatest talkers since the Greeks.
The idea is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
And never would they make a mistake in the order of their entry upon the stage. It would be magnificent.