William Butler Yeats Quotes

Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

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Time can but make her beauty over again.

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Come swish around my pretty punk And keep me dancing still That I may stay a sober man Although I drink my fill.

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The Irishman sustains himself during brief periods of joy by the knowledge that tragedy is just around the corner.

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Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

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Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.

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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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Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

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When we have blamed the wind we can blame love.

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We have lit upon the gentle, sensitive mind And lost the old nonchalance of the hand; Whether we have chosen chisel, pen or brush, We are but critics, or but half create.

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My father upon the Abbey stage, before him a raging crowd. "This Land of Saints," and then as the applause died out, "Of plaster Saints;" his beautiful mischievous head thrown back.

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When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

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Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

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Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

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The living can assist the imagination of the dead.

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To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

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

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Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

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An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

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The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

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