William Butler Yeats Quotes


131 William Butler Yeats quotes:



"Though leaves are many, the root is one;Through all the lying days of my youthI swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun;Now I may wither into the truth."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Youth Quotes
"I have passed with a nod of the headOr polite meaningless words,Or have lingered awhile and saidPolite meaningless words. . . ."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"Words alone are certain good."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"Our words must seem to be inevitable."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Words Quotes
"Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"It would need a great deal of wisdom to know what it is we want to know."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Wisdom Quotes
"Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh"
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right"
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"That William BlakeWho beat upon the wallTill Truth obeyed his call."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Truth Quotes
"The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Time And Time Management Quotes
"Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?"
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Sleep Quotes
"You have to die because no soul has passedThe heavenly threshold since you have opened school,But grass grows there, and rust upon the hinge;And they are lonely that must keep the watch."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: School Quotes
"Speak, speak, for underneath the cover thereThe sand is running from the upper glass,And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Running Quotes
"Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave"
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Romance Quotes
"Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot!A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot,Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again!The beggars have changed places but the lash goes on."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Revolution Quotes
"Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his breast."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Rest Quotes
"In dreams begin responsibility."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Responsibility Quotes
"Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?"
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Pride Quotes
"Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Pride Quotes
"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, or even a good man swings his lantern higher."
Author: Yeats Quotes Category: Praise Quotes



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