1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Boughs have their fruit and blossom At all times of the year; Rivers are running over With red beer and brown beer.

If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.

I spit into the face of time that has transfigured me

Things said or done long years ago, Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.

Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

What can be explained is not poetry.

Once out of nature I shall never take My bodily form from any natural thing, But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make