William Butler Yeats Quotes

Between extremities Man runs his course; A brand, or flaming breath, Comes to destroy All those antinomies Of day and night.

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Yet they that know all things but know That all this life can give us is A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

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It seems to me that true love is a discipline.

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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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I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.

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By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

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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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Words alone are certain good.

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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.

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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

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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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...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. Beauty grown sad with its eternity Made you of us, and of the dim grey sea. Our long ships loose thought-woven sails and wait, For God has bid them share an equal fate; And when at last defeated in His wars, They have gone down under the same white stars, We shall no longer hear the little cry Of our sad hearts, that may not live nor die.

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My wretched dragon is perplexed.

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O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.

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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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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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Is it not certain that the Creator yawns in earthquake and thunder and other popular displays, but toils in rounding the delicate spiral of a shell? -Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil

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You ask what I have found and far and wide I go, Nothing but Cromwell's house and Cromwell's murderous crew, The lovers and the dancers are beaten into the clay, And the tall men and the swordsmen and the horsemen where are they?

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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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I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

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