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Top 20 Orna Ross Quotes (2024 Update)

Orna Ross Quote: “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.”

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 Quote: “If you can’t change your mind, you can’t change anything.”

2. “If you can’t change your mind, you can’t change anything.”

Orna Ross Quote: “Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. – Maud Gonne.”

3. “Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. – Maud Gonne.”

Orna Ross Quote: “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, but what if you are the beauty? Then, it’s the look in a man’s eye coming at you, telling you know more than you want to know. It’s the dislike they deal you for desiring you. Beauty doesn’t write the book or raise the child or learn the knowledge. It’s for the beholder, not the holder.”

4. “Beauty is in the eye of the beholder, they say, but what if you are the beauty? Then, it’s the look in a man’s eye coming at you, telling you know more than you want to know. It’s the dislike they deal you for desiring you. Beauty doesn’t write the book or raise the child or learn the knowledge. It’s for the beholder, not the holder.”

Orna Ross Quote: “He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well.”

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

Orna Ross Quote: “When life disappoints, one must apply one’s will, not crumple.”

6. “When life disappoints, one must apply one’s will, not crumple.”

Orna Ross Quote: “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.”

7. “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 Quote: “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.”

8. “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 Quote: “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.”

9. “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 Quote: “You make such beautiful poetry out of what you call your love and your unhappiness. Marriage would be such a dull affair in comparison.”

10. “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 Quote: “Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life.”

11. “Marriage, after all, is only a little detail in life.”

Orna Ross Quote: “Women come more easily to that wisdom which ancient peoples, and all wild peoples even now, think the only wisdom.”

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

Orna Ross Quote: “They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.”

13. “They were magnificent all right, with the magnificence that can only grow in the ground of great foolishness.”

Orna Ross Quote: “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.”

14. “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 Quote: “Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary.”

15. “Only in dreams and death can perfection be had. Life is broken and weary.”

Orna Ross Quote: “You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.”

16. “You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.”

Orna Ross Quote: “It is inner duty, not outer achievement, that wins peace.”

17. “It is inner duty, not outer achievement, that wins peace.”

Orna Ross Quote: “When looked at from the woman’s side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning.”

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

Orna Ross Quote: “We who have seen the truth will reshape the world, and Ireland shall be our entrance to this world beyond words.”

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

Orna Ross Quote: “Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment.”

20. “Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment.”

Orna Ross Quote: “He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall.”

21. “He has had her today but he has not had her. No man ever shall.”

Orna Ross Quote: “A great poet can give nobler and more precious gifts to his country than the greatest philanthropist or politician.”

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

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