1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.

Swift has sailed into his rest;Savage indignation thereCannot lacerate his breast.

I would that I were an old beggar Rolling a blind pearl eye, For he cannot see my lady Go gallivanting by.

I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence

O love is the crooked thing,There is nobody wise enoughTo find out all that is in it.

Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds.

So long as all is ordered for attack, and that alone, leaders will instinctively increase the number of enemies that they may give their followers something to do.