1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care.

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe it is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swing his lantern higher.

Because I am mad about womenI am mad about the hills,"Said that wild old wicked manWho travels where God wills. . . .

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

John Synge, I and Augusta Gregory, thought All that we did, all that we said or sang Must come from contact with the soil, from that Contact everything Antaeus-like grew strong.

The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

Come near, that no more blinded by man's fate, I find under the boughs of love and hate, In all poor foolish things that live a day, Eternal beauty wandering on her way.

I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.