William Butler Yeats Quotes

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

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There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

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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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I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

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Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

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Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

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O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted.

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Nor bird nor beast Could make me wish for anything this day, Being old, but that the old alone might die, And that would be against God's Providence.

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I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool, And their secret smile, out of the depths of the lake.

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Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

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I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the truth that the reason has not, and that its commandments, delivered when the body is still and the reason silent, are the most binding we can ever know.

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The Bishop has a skin, God knows, Wrinkled like the foot of a goose, (All find safety in the tomb.) Nor can he hide in holy black The heron's hunch upon his back, But a birch-tree stood my Jack.

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An intellectual hate is the worst.

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But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

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to be choked with hate May well be of all evil chances chief.

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I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay

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My wretched dragon is perplexed.

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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

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