“The poppies might be wilted and trampled by the throng, but the memory of our fallen will live on and on and on.”

“A true poet is one who can appreciate the disciplines and structures of any style of poetry.David J Delaney ©”

“Don't let anyone bring you back to earth, keep shooting for the stars.”

“Grief is like a long journeyYou wake each morning in a different place”

“We Irish prefer embroideries to plain cloth. To us Irish, memory is a canvas--stretched, primed, and ready for painting on. We love the "story" part of the word "history," and we love it trimmed out with color and drama, ribbons and bows. Listen to our tunes, observe a Celtic scroll: we always decorate our essence.”

“And he had other assets; one of them -- you'll be surprised at this -- was sin...Whatever it was, Patrick said how it weighed on him. He also exploited it -- because it enabled him to meet people on an equal footing. He was able to say, "Look, I'm not above you. I have my faults, too. I've done terrible things." Just because someone had once sinned, he said, didn't mean they were bad through and through. And that was part of his work in life -- to show that people might sin and still go on to live good lives.”

“I'm not living, I'm dying the American dream.”