William Butler Yeats Quotes:
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
William Butler Yeats
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
William Butler Yeats
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
William Butler Yeats
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
William Butler Yeats
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
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Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
William Butler Yeats
Source: Poetry Foundation
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
William Butler Yeats
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
William Butler Yeats
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
William Butler Yeats
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
William Butler Yeats
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.
William Butler Yeats
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
William Butler Yeats
In dreams begins responsibility.
William Butler Yeats
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother’s womb a fanatic heart.
William Butler Yeats
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
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 Before we grow old and die.
William Butler Yeats
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; 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 read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.
William Butler Yeats
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