5 Quotes Tagged: dublin

the whole worl's in a state o' chassis

Being born in a stable does not make one a horse.

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

I don't believe he was ever dhrunk in his life - sure he's not like a Christian at all!

Did you ever hear tell,'
said Jimmy Farrell,
'of the skulls they have
in the city of Dublin?

White skulls and black skulls
and yellow skulls, and some
with full teeth, and some
haven't only but one,'

and compounded history
in the pan of 'an old Dane,
maybe, was drowned
in the Flood.'

My words lick around
cobbled quays, go hunting
lightly as pampooties
over the skull-capped ground.

-Viking Dublin: Trial Pieces