William Butler Yeats's Quotes

William Butler Yeats's Quotes 75

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in...

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in...

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and...

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply...

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the...

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads...

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will...

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your...

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I...

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of...

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall...

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show...

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon...

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to...

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the...

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of...

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and...

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