William Butler Yeats Quotes

There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wings Quotes , Purple Quotes

True love is a discipline in which each divines the secret self of the other and refuses to believe in the mere daily self.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Love Quotes , Believe Quotes

And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Who mocks at music mocks at love.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes

Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Happiness Quotes

I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Kissing Quotes , Missing Quotes

Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Heaven Quotes , Tragedy Quotes

Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Doe Quotes , Ethics Quotes

Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Wine Quotes , Eye Quotes

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Struggle Quotes , Writing Quotes

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

There where the course is, Delight makes all of the one mind, The riders upon the galloping horses, The crowd that closes in behind.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Horse Quotes , Racing Quotes

We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

THAT crazed girl improvising her music. Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, Her soul in division from itself Climbing, falling She knew not where, Hiding amid the cargo of a steamship, Her knee-cap broken, that girl I declare A beautiful lofty thing, or a thing Heroically lost, heroically found. No matter what disaster occurred She stood in desperate music wound, Wound, wound, and she made in her triumph Where the bales and the baskets lay No common intelligible sound But sang, 'O sea-starved, hungry sea

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Lying Quotes , Eye Quotes

We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes