William Butler Yeats Quotes

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

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A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

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Our words must seem to be inevitable.

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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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One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

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John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

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Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

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When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

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The soldier takes pride in saluting his Captain, The devotee proffers a knee to his Lord, Some back a mare thrown from a thoroughbred, Troy backed its Helen, Troy died and adored; Great nations blossom above, A slave bows down to a slave.

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even The bed of love, that in the imagination Had seemed to be the giver of all peace, Is no more than a wine-cup in the tasting, And as soon finished.

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The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

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A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.

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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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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.

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I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree, And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made; Nine bean rows will I have there, a hive for the honey bee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade. And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow, Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings; There midnight's all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow, And evening full of the linnet's wings.

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Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

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THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

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