1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers.

Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.

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

Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.

Well, to see rightly is the whole of wisdom, whatever dream be with us.

We only believe in those thoughts which have been conceived not in the brain but in the whole body.

... Let the cage bird and the cage bird mate and the wild bird mate in the wild.