William Butler Yeats
16 quotations
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
Education is not the filling of the pail, but, the lighting of the fire.
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
In dreams begin responsibility.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.