William Butler Yeats Quotes

In dreams begin responsibilitiy.

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Come let us mock at the great That had such burdens on the mind And toiled so hard and late To leave some monument behind, Nor thought of the leveling wind.

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Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot high, And mine were but fifteen foot, no modern stalks upon higher, Some rogue of the world stole them to patch up a fence or a fire.

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Nor seek, for this is also sooth, To hunger fiercely after truth, Lest all thy toiling only breeds New dreams, new dreams; there is no truth Saving in thine own heart.

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It seems to me that love, if it is fine, is essentially a discipline.

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Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.

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We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned.

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The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

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How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

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Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man; Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

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All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

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My curse on plays That have to be set up in fifty ways, On the day's war with every knave and dolt, Theater business, management of men.

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Earth in beauty dressed Awaits returning spring. All true love must die, Alter at the best Into some lesser thing. Prove that I lie.

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Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.

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One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

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Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

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For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

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