William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

And say my glory was I had such friends.

One should not lose one`s temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue.

The problem with some people is that when they aren`t drunk, they`re sober.

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

In dreams begins responsibility.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.