1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

"Chaunt in his ear delusions magical, That he may fight the horses of the sea." The Druids took them to their mystery, And chaunted for three days.

What can be shown? What true love be? All could be known or shown If Time were but gone.

The friends that have I do it wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.

The women take so little stock In what I do or say They'd sooner leave their cosseting To hear a jackass bray....

Some moralist or mythological poet Compares the solitary soul to a swan; I am satisfied with that, Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it, Before that brief gleam of its life be gone....

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born

I have found nothing half so good / As my long-planned half solitude, / Where I can sit up half the night / With some friend that has the wit...

Teaching is not filling up a pail, it is lighting a fire.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.