Famous Quotes,
Proverbs, & Sayings

William Butler Yeats Quote

Popular Topics:

People | Life | Time | Man | Love | Work | Music | Mind | Women | Money | War | Truth | Power | Art | Government | Nature | Business | History | Family | Age | Society | Success

Popular Authors:

Anthony Robbins | Tennessee Williams | Steve Jobs | Ramakrishna | Henry Fielding | Albert Schweitzer | Carl Sandburg | Stephen Hawking | Karl Kraus | Walt Disney | Arthur C. Clarke

Popular Occupations:

Actors | Politicians | Philosophers | Musicians | Comedians | Scientists | Artists | Lawyers

William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“And say my glory was I had such friends.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”

- William Butler Yeats

Source/Notes: As quoted in: "The New York Times Biographical Service, Volume 26" (1995), p. 1417

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishry.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr

William Butler Yeats

“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”

- William Butler Yeats

View as Image Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pintrest Share on Tumblr