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Quotes from William Butler Yeats


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Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!


Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.


The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.


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 this life, this death.


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


The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.


Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.


This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.


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.


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


Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.


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


I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'


You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.


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


How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.


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.


We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.


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


Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.