56 Quotations by William Butler Yeats
- 21. I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to ...
- 22. I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
- 23. I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almo ...
- 24. In dreams begin responsibility.
- 25. It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini ...
- 26. Joy is the will which labors, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
- 27. Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
- 28. Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
- 29. Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony ...
- 30. Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it ...
- 31. Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
- 32. Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and wha ...
- 33. Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.
- 34. Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my moth ...
- 35. People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the ...
- 36. Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.
- 37. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
- 38. The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given ...
- 39. The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the ...
- 40. The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
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