1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Nothing but sweetness can remain when hearts are full of their own sweetness.

If you believe in God,You are my soul's one friend.

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

. . . you may think I waste my breath Pretending that there can be passion That has more life in it than death

For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

I hear the wind a blowI hear the grass a grow,And all that I know, I know.But I will not speak, I will run away.

Poor men have grown to be rich men,And rich men grown to be poor again,And I am running to Paradise.

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit....