1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

The blood-dimmed tide is loosed,

The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away

Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

The poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

Overcome the Empyrean; hurl Heaven and Earth out of their places, That in the same calamity Brother and brother, friend and friend, Family and family, City and city may contend.

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that

We cannot doubt that barbaric people receive such influences more visibly and obviously, and in all likelihood more easily and fully than we do, for our life in cities, which deafens or kills the passive meditative life, and our education that enlarges the separated, self-moving mind, have made our souls less sensitive.

Time can but make her beauty over again.