1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.

Civilisation is hooped together, brought Under a rule, under the semblance of peace By manifold illusion....

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty...

Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

Time can but make it easier to be wise / Though now it seems impossible, and so / All that you need is patience.

I bring you with reverent hands The books of my numberless dreams.