William Butler Yeats Quotes

I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

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The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray.

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I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.

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My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

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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.

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Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

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One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

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How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

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O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more.

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If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

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And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

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From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

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for never yet Has lover lived, but longed to wive Like them that are no more alive.

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Never shall a young man, Thrown into despair By those great honey-coloured Ramparts at your ear, Love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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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?

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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

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Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

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Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

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The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

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Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her did not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears.

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