1,059 Quotes by William Butler Yeats

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

Evil comes to all us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues.

Ah, let us kiss each other's eyes,/And laugh our love away.

I think a man and a woman should choose each other for life, for the simple reason that a long life with all its accidents is barely enough for a man and a woman to understand each other; and in this case to understand is to love.

Great Powers of falling wave and wind and windy fire, With your harmonious choir Encircle her I love and sing her into peace, That my old care may cease....

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

All think what other people think; All know the man their neighbor knows. Lord, what would they say Did their Catullus walk that way?

God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone.

The desire that is satisfied is not a great desire, nor has the shoulder used all its might that an unbreakable gate has never strained.