William Butler Yeats Quotes

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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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

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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.

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Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

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There is another world, but it is in this one.

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Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action, for we would not change that which we love.

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I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

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That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

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Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

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From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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Before me floats an image, man or shade, / Shade more than man, more image than a shade.

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Why should the imagination of a man Long past his prime remember things that are Emblematical of love and war?

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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

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Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

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A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

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The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

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Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

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