In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns a...
W.B. YEATS The Cat and the Moon

The cat went here and there
And the moon spun round like a top...
W.B. YEATS Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For ...
W.B. YEATS Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run...
W.B. YEATS THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore,

Her soul...
W.B. YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
W.B. YEATS The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
W.B. YEATS Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall ...
W.B. YEATS The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.
W.B. YEATS For he would be thinking of love
Till the stars had run away
And the shadows eaten the moo...
W.B. YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue an...
W.B. YEATS I spit into the face of Time
That has transfigured me.
W.B. YEATS Politics

How can I, that girl standing there,
My attention fix
On Roman ...
W.B. YEATS One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life u...
W.B. YEATS How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true; W.B. YEATS Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo...
W.B. YEATS The host is rushing 'twixt day and night,
And where is there hope or deed as fair?
Caoilte...
W.B. YEATS The Celt, and his cromlechs, and his pillar-stones, these will not change much – indeed, it is dou...
W.B. YEATS I went out to the hazel wood
because a fire was in my head
cut and peeled a hazel wand
W.B. YEATS O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer,
Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole?
O body...
W.B. YEATS Heart-mysteries there, and yet when all is said
It was the dream itself enchanted me
("The...
W.B. YEATS How far away the stars seem, and how far
Is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart!
W.B. YEATS Before me floats an image, man or shade,
Shade more than man, more image than a shade;
For...
W.B. YEATS Who Goes With Fergus?

Who will go drive with Fergus now,
And pierce the deep wood's ...
W.B. YEATS I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by ...
W.B. YEATS Ephemera

Your eyes that once were never weary of mine
Are bowed in sorrow un...
W.B. YEATS There was a man whom Sorrow named his Friend,
And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,
W.B. YEATS The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work.
W.B. YEATS In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli
Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour...
W.B. YEATS When You Are Old

When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding b...
W.B. YEATS We have fallen in the dreams the ever-living
Breathe on the tarnished mirror of the world,
W.B. YEATS And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of th...
W.B. YEATS I made my song a coat
Covered with embroideries
Out of old mythologies
From heel to t...
W.B. YEATS Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet;
She passed the salley gardens with little s...
W.B. YEATS God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone.
W.B. YEATS Things fall apart;
the center cannot hold...
W.B. YEATS Out of Ireland have we come.
Great hatred, little room,
Maimed us at the start.
I ca...
W.B. YEATS ROSE of all Roses, Rose of all the World!
The tall thought-woven sails, that flap unfurled W.B. YEATS I whispered, 'I am too young,' and then, 'I am old enough'; wherefore I threw a penny to find out if...
W.B. YEATS Why should I blame her that she filled my days
With misery, or that she would of late
Hav...
W.B. YEATS When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book, W.B. YEATS Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned
By those who are not entirely beautiful.
W.B. YEATS God spreads the heavens above us like great wings
And gives a little round of deeds and days, W.B. YEATS I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some ...
W.B. YEATS I have spread my dreams under your feet.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
W.B. YEATS Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood...
W.B. YEATS An Irish Airman foresees his Death

I Know that I shall meet my fate
Somewhere amon...
W.B. YEATS The Scholars
"Bald heads forgetful of their sins,
Old, learned, respectable bald he...
W.B. YEATS I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate,...
W.B. YEATS A lonely impulse of delight
W.B. YEATS Jonathan Swift made a soul for the gentlemen of this city by hating his neighbor as himself.
W.B. YEATS I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have gro...
W.B. YEATS Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear....
W.B. YEATS There is another world, but it is in this one.
W.B. YEATS Too many things are occurring for even a big heart to hold.
W.B. YEATS A mermaid found a swimming lad,
Picked him up for her own,
Pressed her body to his body,<...
W.B. YEATS Never give all the heart, for love
Will hardly seem worth thinking of
To passionate women ...
W.B. YEATS Education is not the filling of a bucket, but the lighting of a fire
W.B. YEATS All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
W.B. YEATS Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should i...
W.B. YEATS The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
W.B. YEATS What can be explained is not poetry.
W.B. YEATS Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
W.B. YEATS I will arise and go now,
And go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there,
Of clay ...
W.B. YEATS Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
W.B. YEATS Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.
W.B. YEATS When You Are Old"


WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by...
W.B. YEATS In dreams begin responsibilities.
W.B. YEATS Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
W.B. YEATS If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
W.B. YEATS A couple of hours after Sunset Michael Robartes returned and told me that I would have to learn the ...
W.B. YEATS When you are old and grey and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly...
W.B. YEATS An intellectual hatred is the worst.
W.B. YEATS Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it ca...
W.B. YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread sof...
W.B. YEATS To A Squirrel At Kyle-Na-No

Come play with me;
Why should you run
Through the s...
W.B. YEATS Wine enters through the mouth,
Love, the eyes.
I raise the glass to my mouth,
I look ...
W.B. YEATS There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas that she did ...
W.B. YEATS When they had finished they made me take notes of whatever conversation they had quoted, so that I m...
W.B. YEATS And now he is singing a bard's curse upon you, O brother abbot, and upon your father and your mother...
W.B. YEATS I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams.
W.B. YEATS Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the d...
W.B. YEATS The intellect of man is forced to choose
Perfection of the life, or of the work
And if it ...
W.B. YEATS The Coming of Wisdom with Time

Though leaves are many, the root is one,
Through all ...
W.B. YEATS I was dancing with an immortal august woman, who had black lilies in her hair, and her dreamy gestur...
W.B. YEATS ...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.
W.B. YEATS I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness.
They have all mad...
W.B. YEATS To an Isle in the Water

Shy one, shy one,
Shy one of my heart,
She moves in t...
W.B. YEATS What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there ...
W.B. YEATS When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.
W.B. YEATS And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
W.B. YEATS O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
W.B. YEATS My wretched dragon is perplexed.
W.B. YEATS By the Hospital Lane goes the 'Faeries Path.' Every evening they travel from the hill to the sea, fr...
W.B. YEATS He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the...
W.B. YEATS Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been t...
W.B. YEATS A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard
A voice singing on a May Eve like this,
And followe...
W.B. YEATS O cowardly amd tyrannous race of monks, persecutors of the bard, and the gleemen, haters of life and...
W.B. YEATS Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the ...
W.B. YEATS Just do it. Now.
M. YEATS Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage i...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Grant me an old man's frenzy,
Myself must I remake
Till I am Timon and Lear
Or that Willia...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetr...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I a...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats.
W. B. YEATS I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made wha...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar tho...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.
J. B. YEATS The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unsti...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You shall go with me, newly-married bride,
And gaze upon a merrier multitude.
White-armed Nual...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort tha...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
FRANCIS YEATS BROWN Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covere...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed t...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Ye...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS In dreams begin responsibility.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS In dreams begins responsibility.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious m...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambas...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly becaus...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alon...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Befo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy whe...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS How can we know the dancer from the dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take th...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, becau...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. ...
J. B. YEATS Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cra...
J. B. YEATS All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS When two close kindred meetWhat better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS We were the last romantics -- chose for themeTraditional sanctity and loveliness.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. S...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my moth...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS