William Butler Yeats Quotes

How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes

A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Dog Quotes , Cat Quotes

O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Light Quotes , Docks Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Country Quotes , Drunk Quotes

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Air Quotes , Soul Quotes

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Phoenix Quotes

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Blood Quotes , World Quotes

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I, too, await The hour of thy great wind of love and hate. When shall the stars be blown about the sky, Like the sparks blown out of a smithy, and die?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Stars Quotes , Hate Quotes

Eyes spiritualised by death can judge, I cannot, but I am not content.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Eye Quotes

Many times man lives and dies between his two eternities: that of race and that of Soul... A brief parting from those dear is the worst man has to fear... Though grave diggers' toil is long... They but thrust their buried men back in the human mind again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Keys Quotes

Test every work of intellect or faith, And everything that your own hands have wrought And call those works extravagance of breath That are not suited for such men as come Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

5 years ago

Message Copied

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

The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Drunk Quotes , Problem Quotes