--- title: "3 Faeries Quotes By W.B. Yeats" description: "3 Faeries quotes by W.B. Yeats. Plus more from W.B. Yeats and more Faeries sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db1/w-b-yeats-8179_day-and-night_the-host-is-rushing-twixt-day-and-night_16834.jpg" --- > [“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/the-host-is-rushing-twixt-day-and-night-and-where-is-there-hope-or/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/db1/w-b-yeats-8179_day-and-night_the-host-is-rushing-twixt-day-and-night_16834.jpg) > [“By the Hospital Lane goes the 'Faeries Path.' Every evening they travel from the hill to the sea, from the sea to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/by-the-hospital-lane-goes-the-faeries-path-every-evening-they-travel/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4be/w-b-yeats-8179_faery_by-the-hospital-lane-goes-the-faeries-pa_1588972.jpg) > [“He had many strange sights to keep him cheerful or to make him sad. I asked him had he ever seen the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/he-had-many-strange-sights-to-keep-him-cheerful-or-to-make-him-sad-i/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/830/w-b-yeats-8179_banshees_he-had-many-strange-sights-to-keep-him-c_1855402.jpg) ## Other authors on Faeries - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-julie-kagawa-54348.jpg) Julie Kagawa 16 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/julie-kagawa/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b015/author-kiersten-white-57135.jpg) Kiersten White 15 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/kiersten-white/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-cassandra-clare-21529.jpg) Cassandra Clare 11 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/cassandra-clare/) - [Kailin Gow 10 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/kailin-gow/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b013/author-jim-butcher-49689.jpg) Jim Butcher 8 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/jim-butcher/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b005/author-brian-froud-19502.jpg) Brian Froud 7 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/brian-froud/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b017/author-melissa-marr-66524.jpg) Melissa Marr 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/melissa-marr/) - [Richard Due 5 quotes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/richard-due/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b006/author-j-l-sheppard-23136.jpg) J.L. Sheppard 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/j-l-sheppard/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-holly-black-42183.jpg) Holly Black 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/holly-black/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b001/author-amy-lane-2185.jpg) Amy Lane 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/amy-lane/) ## More by W.B. Yeats > [“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/the-host-is-rushing-twixt-day-and-night-and-where-is-there-hope-or/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/oh-who-could-have-foretold-that-the-heart-grows-old/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/for-the-good-are-always-the-merry-save-by-an-evil-chance-and-the/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/i-spit-upon-the-dancers-painted-by-degas-i-spit-upon-their-short/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“I had fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him speaking as at a distance. 'And yet there is no one…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/i-had-fallen-into-a-profound-dream-like-reverie-in-which-i-heard-him/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: \*Him who trembles before the flame and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/be-you-still-be-you-still-trembling-heart-remember-the-wisdom-out-of/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“The Nineteenth Century And After Though the great song return no more There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/the-nineteenth-century-and-after-though-the-great-song-return-no-more/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/what-is-literature-but-the-expression-of-moods-by-the-vehicle-of/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“Its quarrel is not with the past, but with the present, where its elders are so obviously powerful, and no cause seems lost if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/its-quarrel-is-not-with-the-past-but-with-the-present-where-its/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“On November Eve they are at their gloomiest, for according to the old Gaelic reckoning, this is the first night of winter. This night…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/on-november-eve-they-are-at-their-gloomiest-for-according-to-the-old/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“... Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/those-masterful-images-because-complete-grew-in-pure-mind-but-out-of/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/the-portraits-of-more-historical-than-artistic-interest-had-gone-and/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“it's a long lane that has no turning.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/it-s-a-long-lane-that-has-no-turning/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“In tombs of gold and lapis lazuli Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/in-tombs-of-gold-and-lapis-lazuli-bodies-of-holy-men-and-women-exude/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) > [“A man awaits his end Dreading and hoping all; Many times he died, Many times rose again”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/w-b-yeats/a-man-awaits-his-end-dreading-and-hoping-all-many-times-he-died-many/) [W.B. Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/w-b-yeats/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/w-b-yeats/#itemlist", "name": "3 Faeries Quotes By W.B. Yeats", "numberOfItems": 3, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh calling Away, come away.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "W.B. 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