William Butler Yeats Quotes
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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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The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.
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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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Everything we look upon is blest.
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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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What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead?
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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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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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Time can but make her beauty over again.
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The falcon cannot hear the falconer
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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.
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Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.
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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.