William Butler Yeats Quotes

Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery.

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I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

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What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

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Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.

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I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

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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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A symbol is indeed the only possible expression of some invisible essence, a transparent lamp about a spiritual flame; while allegory is one of many possible representations of an embodied thing, or familiar principle, and belongs to fancy and not to imagination: the one is a revelation, the other an amusement.

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Come near; I would, before my time to go, Sing of old Eire and the ancient ways: Red Rose, proud Rose, sad Rose of all my days.

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Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

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The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

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When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

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The house ghost is usually a harmless and well-meaning creature. It is put up with as long as possible. It brings good luck to those who live with it.

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A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.

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The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

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What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

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

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Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.

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

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

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