William Butler Yeats Quotes
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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Everything we look upon is blest.
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We must not make a false faith by hiding from our thoughts the causes of doubt, for faith is the highest achievement of the human intellect, the only gift man can make to God, and therefore it must be offered in sincerity.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.
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Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.
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Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.
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Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?
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I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
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I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.
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We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.
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I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.
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A speckled cat and a tame hare Eat at my hearthstone And sleep there; And both look up to me alone For learning and defence As I look up to Providence.
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Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.