William Butler Yeats Quotes

It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, / Can be content with argument and deal / In abstract things; or be derided by / A sort of battered kettle at the heel.

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Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

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For such, Being made beautiful overmuch, Consider beauty a sufficient end, Lose natural kindness and maybe The heart-revealing intimacy That chooses right, and never find a friend.

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

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I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.

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

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Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

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I have drunk ale from the Country of the Young / And weep because I know all things now.

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Because of something told under the famished horn Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day, To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay, Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

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I long for truth, and yet I cannot stay from that My better self disowns, For a man's attention Brings such satisfaction To the craving in my bones.

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Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?

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Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

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What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

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Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day.

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As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

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