1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all

Time to put off the world and go somewhereAnd find my health again in the sea air,"Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck,"And make my soul before my pate is bare.

Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide: Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again...

I have grown to believe that there is no dangerous idea, which does not become less dangerous when written out in sincere and careful English.

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?

What do we know but that we face one another in this place?