Best William Butler Yeats Qoutes
- The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. Bow
- I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind. Art
- Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. All
- A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. Been
- Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. Accursed
- Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. Ambassador
- How can we know the dancer from the dance? Dance
- But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? Dog
- Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry. Cast
- I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. Age
- Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. Differences
- The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. Alone
- The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. Behind
- I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best,… Bad
- An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for… Aged
- Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living,… Action
- I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with… All
- 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 God.… Compromise
- The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent… Christian
- I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of… All
- That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low… All
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? Beast
- What do we know but that we face one another in this place? Face
- The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all All
- Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light… Blue
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