710 Quotes About Historical

Where there’s life, there’s learning, and the truth is always calling us out of our pride. If we don’t harken, it will call louder, and throw a situation at us. A pebble at first. If we still don’t listen, we’ll get a stone. Then a rock. Then a great crashing boulder. We must learn, or die.

Never be a good prisoner. Not unless you want to collude in your own imprisonment.

Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne

All our lives, we long, we long, thinking it is the moon we long for. So how, when we meet it in the shape of a most fair woman, can we do less than leave all others for her?” WB Yeats

You can trust in nothing. Nothing is always there, holding all.

When looked at from the woman’s side of the bed-sheet, most tales take a turning.

When life disappoints, one must apply one’s will, not crumple.

He loves the most beautiful woman in the world. And like Sir Lancelot, he shall love her exceedingly well.

He has been preparing his life and his poetry for just such a woman, just such intermingling of beauty and sorrow and mystery. But a woman like her will not settle into the role of helpmeet or muse; she is too adventurous, too vital, too fond of sensation. She will want to be, an ally. An equal. What can he, a poor student of poetry, offer her? Only his words.