1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

I have nothing more to give you than my heart. Spanish saying Hearts are not to be had as a gift hearts are to be earned...

Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

Myself I must remake.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Speak, speak, for underneath the cover there The sand is running from the upper glass, And when the last grain's through, I shall be lost.

I would that there was nothing in the world But my beloved that night and day had perished, And all that is and all that is to be, All that is not the meeting of our lips.

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then....

In dreams begins responsibility.