1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

yet it seems Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind, Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams, But the torn petals strew the garden plot; And there's but common greenness after that.

Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.

Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land; Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand....

Imagining in excited reverie That the future years had come, Dancing to a frenzied drum, Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.

I kiss you and kiss you, With arms around my own, Ah, how shall I miss you, When, dear, you have grown.

Bodies of holy men and women exude Miraculous oil, odour of violet. But under heavy loads of trampled clay Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood; Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.

A man who does not exist,A man who is but a dream.

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.