1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

How but in custom and in ceremony are innocence and beauty born?

Only the wasteful virtues earn the sun....

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

While man can still his body keep Wine or love drug him to sleep, Waking he thanks the Lord that he Has body and its stupidity....

When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest.

My chair was nearest to the fire In every company That talked of love or politics, Ere Time transfigured me.

While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.

When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.