1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Time's bitter flood will rise,Your beauty perish and be lostFor all eyes but these eyes.

He Who is wrapped in purple robes, With planets in His care, Had pity on the least of things Asleep upon a chair.

What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

I am haunted by numberless islands, many a Danaan shore, Where Time would surely forget us, and Sorrow come near us no more;Soon far from the rose and the lily and fret of the flames would we be, Were we only white birds, my beloved, buoyed out on the foam of the sea!

That beautiful mild woman for whose sake There's many a one shall find out all heartache On finding that her voice is sweet and low Replied, 'To be born a woman is to know- Although they do not talk of it at school - That we must labor to be beautiful.