William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

Where there is nothing, there is God.

Though leaves are many, the root is one.

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

Everything in nature is resurrection.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

What can be explained is not poetry.

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

Myself I must remake.

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

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

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

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

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

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

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

How can we know the dancer from the dance?

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

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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