1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes, But when this soul, its body off, Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows, And give his own and take his own And rule in his own right; And though it loved in misery Close and cling so tight, There’s not a bird of day that dare Extinguish that delight.

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought...

He who made you bitter made you wise.

Because the priest must have like every dog his day Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon, We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn, Come clear of the nets of wrong and right; Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight, Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

All the stream that’s roaring by Came out of a needle’s eye...

A spot whereon the founders lived and died Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees, Or gardens rich in memory glorified Marriages, alliances, and families, And every bride’s ambition satisfied.

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid Under this cradle-hood and coverlid My child sleeps on.