--- title: "4 Faeries Quotes By William Butler Yeats" description: "4 Faeries quotes by William Butler Yeats. Plus more from William Butler Yeats and more Faeries sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/william-butler-yeats-350_dreams_ah-faerics-dancing-under-the-moon-a-drui_538925.png" --- > [“Ah, faerics, dancing under the moon, A Druid land, a Druid tune! While still I may, I write for you The love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/ah-faerics-dancing-under-the-moon-a-druid-land-a-druid-tune-while/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ebd/william-butler-yeats-350_dreams_ah-faerics-dancing-under-the-moon-a-drui_538925.png) > [“God spreads the heavens above us like great wings And gives a little round of deeds and days, And then come the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/god-spreads-the-heavens-above-us-like-great-wings-and-gives-a-little-2/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dea/william-butler-yeats-350_faeries_god-spreads-the-heavens-above-us-like-gr_1727184.jpg) > [“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/faeries-come-take-me-out-of-this-dull-world-for-i-would-ride-with-you/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/302/william-butler-yeats-350_dance_faeries-come-take-me-out-of-this-dull-wo_2062937.png) > [The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/the-land-of-fairy-where-nobody-gets-old-and-godly-and-grave-where/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fbf/william-butler-yeats-350_dreams_the-land-of-fairy-where-nobody-gets-old_2166008.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 William Butler Yeats > [Time can but make her beauty over again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/time-can-but-make-her-beauty-over-again/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-would-have-touched-it-like-a-child-but-knew-my-finger-could-but/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/you-know-what-the-englishman-s-idea-of-compromise-is-he-says-some/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat Over my heart, and your hair fall over my breast, Drowning love's lonely hour…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/beloved-let-your-eyes-half-close-and-your-heart-beat-over-my-heart/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/that-toil-of-growing-up-the-ignominy-of-boyhood-the-distress-of/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-see-a-schoolboy-when-i-think-of-him-with-face-and-nose-pressed-to-a/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/only-god-my-dear-could-love-you-for-yourself-alone-and-not-your/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/we-can-only-begin-to-live-when-we-conceive-life-as-tragedy/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/i-know-that-i-shall-meet-my-fate-somewhere-among-the-clouds-above/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/great-literature-has-always-been-written-in-a-like-spirit-and-is/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/where-the-wave-of-moonlight-glosses-the-dim-gray-sands-with-light-far/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/his-element-is-so-fine-being-sharpened-by-his-death-to-drink-from-the/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [We poets would die of loneliness but for women, and we choose our men friends that we may have somebody to talk about women…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/we-poets-would-die-of-loneliness-but-for-women-and-we-choose-our-men/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Love is created and preserved by intellectual analysis, for we love only that which is unique, and it belongs to contemplation, not to action,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/love-is-created-and-preserved-by-intellectual-analysis-for-we-love/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) > [Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream? For these red lips, with all their mournful pride, Mournful that no new wonder may betide,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-butler-yeats/who-dreamed-that-beauty-passes-like-a-dream-for-these-red-lips-with/) [William Butler Yeats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-butler-yeats/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/faeries/william-butler-yeats/#itemlist", "name": "4 Faeries Quotes By William Butler Yeats", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“Ah, faerics, dancing under the moon, A Druid land, a Druid tune! 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