Quotes by William Butler Yeats

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

#William Butler Yeats

I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that...

#Clouds

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

#William Butler Yeats

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire,...

#William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

#William Butler Yeats

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it...

#William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not...

#William Butler Yeats

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled...

#William Butler Yeats

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

#Language

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The...

#Anarchy

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall...

#Anarchy, #Innocence

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from...

#Books