World Quotes by William Butler Yeats

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

— William Butler Yeats

There is another world, but it is in this one.

— William Butler Yeats

The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.

— William Butler Yeats

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

— William Butler Yeats

...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...

— William Butler Yeats

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

— William Butler Yeats

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.

— William Butler Yeats

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room.

— William Butler Yeats

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is…

— William Butler Yeats

“Faeries, come take me out of this dull world, For I would ride with you upon the wind, Run on the top…

— William Butler Yeats

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full…

— William Butler Yeats

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by…

— William Butler Yeats

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every…

— William Butler Yeats

The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a…

— William Butler Yeats

What were all the world's alarms To mighty Paris when he found Sleep upon a golden bed That first dawn in Helen's…

— William Butler Yeats

Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.

— William Butler Yeats

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right…

— William Butler Yeats

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy…

— William Butler Yeats

And that enquiring man John Synge comes next, That dying chose the living world for text And never could have rested in…

— William Butler Yeats

Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves…

— William Butler Yeats

Some burn damp faggots, others may consume The entire combustible world in one small room As though dried straw, and if we…

— William Butler Yeats

Processions that lack high stilts have nothing that catches the eye. What if my great-granddad had a pair that were twenty foot…

— William Butler Yeats

If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words…

— 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

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and…

— William Butler Yeats

...Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled Upon the wharves…

— William Butler Yeats

And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

— William Butler Yeats

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image…

— William Butler Yeats

For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or…

— William Butler Yeats

Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and…

— William Butler Yeats

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked…

— William Butler Yeats

Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the…

— William Butler Yeats

Whence had they come The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome? What sacred drama through her body heaved When world-transforming…

— William Butler Yeats

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the…

— William Butler Yeats

Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is…

— William Butler Yeats

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

— William Butler Yeats

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

— William Butler Yeats

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then.

— William Butler Yeats

What portion in the world can the artist have, Who has awakened from the common dream, But dissipation and despair?

— William Butler Yeats

I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is…

— William Butler Yeats