William Butler Yeats Quotes

I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.

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And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

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O heart, we are old; The living beauty is for younger men: We cannot pay its tribute of wild tears.

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

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I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.

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Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.

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What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

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All things can tempt me from this craft of verse: One time it was a woman's face, or worse-- The seeming needs of my fool-driven land; Now nothing but comes readier to the hand Than this accustomed toil.

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Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.

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For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

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Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

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The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

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Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.

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Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party.

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O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

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If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.

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As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead, For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said. Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

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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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May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.

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

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