1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

It seems to me that love, if fine, is essentially a discipline.

O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes, The poets labouring all their days To build a perfect beauty in rhyme Are overthrown by a woman's gaze....

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

May we two stand, When we are dead, beyond the setting suns, A little from other shades apart, With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.

I sigh that kiss you, For I must own That I shall miss you When you have grown.

For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.