1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

What can books of men that wive In a dragon-guarded land, Paintings of the dolphin-drawn Sea-nymphs in their pearly wagons Do, but awake a hope to live...?

man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality....

TOIL and grow rich, what's that but to lie with a foul witch and after, drained dry, to be brought to the chamber where lies one long sought with despair.

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent

What shall I do for pretty girlsNow my old bawd is dead?