Thinking Quotes by William Butler Yeats

I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.

— William Butler Yeats

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

— William Butler Yeats

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

— William Butler Yeats

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

— William Butler Yeats

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

— William Butler Yeats

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

— William Butler Yeats

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he…

— William Butler Yeats

You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when…

— William Butler Yeats

The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. .…

— William Butler Yeats

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he…

— William Butler Yeats

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will…

— William Butler Yeats

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk…

— William Butler Yeats

I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not…

— William Butler Yeats

A sea captain when he stands upon the bridge, or looks out from his deck-house, thinks much about God and about the…

— William Butler Yeats

THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or…

— William Butler Yeats

Now as to magic. It is surely absurd to hold me "weak" or otherwise because I choose to persist in a study…

— William Butler Yeats

When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the…

— William Butler Yeats

An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out…

— William Butler Yeats

I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I…

— William Butler Yeats