1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

Who understood Whatever has been said, sighed, sung, Howled, miau-d, barked, brayed, belled, yelled, cried, crowed...

Tis the eternal law, That first in beauty should be first in might.

O sweet everlasting Voices, be still; Go to the guards of the heavenly fold And bid them wander obeying your will, Flame under flame, till Time be no more...

Men come, men go, all things remain in God.

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, It’s with O’Leary in the grave.

I hear it in the deep heart’s core.

There’s keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on the shore Under the receding wave.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world’s eyes As though they’d wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there’s more enterprise In walking naked.