William Butler Yeats Quotes

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

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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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All art that is not mere storytelling, or mere portraiture, is symbolic, and has the purpose of those symbolic talismans which medieval magicians made with complex colours and forms, and bade their patients ponder over daily, and guard with holy secrecy; for it entangles, in complex colours and forms, a part of the Divine Essence.

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Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

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The Muse is mute when public men Applaud a modern throne.

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In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

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If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

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All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

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

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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed.

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Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

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

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The common breeds the common, A lout begets a lout, So when I take on half a score I knock their heads about.

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Your hooves have stamped at the black margin of the wood, Even where horrible green parrots call and swing. My works are all stamped down into the sultry mud.

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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

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I have nothing but the embittered sun; Banished heroic mother moon and vanished, And now that I have come to fifty years I must endure the timid sun.

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I pray-for fashion's word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.

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Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make Of hammered gold and gold enameling To keep a drowsy Emperor awake; Or set upon a golden bough to sing To lords and ladies of Byzantium Of what is past, or passing, or to come.

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