William Butler Yeats Quotes

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Moving Quotes , Self Quotes

All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Art Quotes , Half Quotes

I cast my heart into my rhymes, That you, in the dim coming times, May know how my heart went with them After the red-rose-bordered hem.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Flower Quotes , Heart Quotes

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Christian Quotes , Passion Quotes

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Art Quotes , People Quotes

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven't the time to cook it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Hours Quotes , Pleasure Quotes

When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wise Quotes , Book Quotes

Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Garden Quotes , Spinning Quotes

The Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wise Quotes , Angel Quotes

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Taste Quotes , Reason Quotes

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Running Quotes , Beer Quotes

How can they know Truth flourishes where the student's lamp has shone, And there alone, that have no solitude? So the crowd come they care not what may come. They have loud music, hope every day renewed And heartier loves; that lamp is from the tomb.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Truth Quotes , Solitude Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Beauty Quotes , Beautiful Quotes

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's core.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Heart Quotes , Night Quotes

We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Faith Quotes , Men Quotes

All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Hands Quotes , Land Quotes

Never give all the heart, for love Will hardly seem worth thinking of To passionate women if it seem Certain, and they never dream That it fades out from kiss to kiss; For everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy, kind delight. O Never give the heart outright, For they, for all smooth lips can say, Have given their hearts up to the play. And who could play it well enough If deaf and dumb and blind with love? He that made this knows all the cost, For he gave all his heart and lost.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Dream Quotes , Heart Quotes

Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Men Quotes , Evil Quotes

The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes

Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Fighting Quotes