William Butler Yeats Quotes, Thoughts and images

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

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

What man does not understand, he fears; and what he fears, he tends to destroy.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

Myself I must remake.

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

What can be explained is not poetry.

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

I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.

Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.

Everything in nature is resurrection.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

Where there is nothing, there is God.

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