1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Though you are in your shining days / Voices among the crowd / And new friends busy with your praise / Be not unkind or proud / But think about old friends the most / Time's bitter flood will rise / Your beauty perish and be lost / For all eyes but these eyes.

I will arise and go now, for always night and day / I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; / While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey, / I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

The trees are in their autumn beauty, The woodland paths are dry, Under the October twilight the water Mirrors a still sky.

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.

So great a sweetness flows into the breast / We must laugh and we must sing, / We are blessed by everything,/ Everything we look upon is blest.

I declare this tower is my symbol; I declare / This winding, gyring, spiring treadmill of a stair is my ancestral stair

Half in the unvesselled sea, we climbed the stair / And climbed so long, I thought the last steps were / Hung from the morning star; when these mild words / Fanned the delighted air like wings of birds:

WHAT'S riches to him That has made a great peacock With the pride of his eye? The wind-beaten, stone-grey and desolate three rock would nourish his whim.