1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Though pedantry denies, It's plain the Bible means That Solomon grew wise While talking with his queens....

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

Do you not hear me calling, white deer with no horns? I have been changed to a hound with one red ear; I have been in the Path of Stones and the Wood of Thorns....

Who mocks at music mocks at love.

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.