1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

Come, fix upon me that accusing eye. I thirst for accusation. All that was sung. All that was said in Ireland is a lie Breed out of the contagion of the throng, Saving the rhyme rats hear before they die.

It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

We . . . are no petty people. We are of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.

An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.