William Butler Yeats Quotes & Quotations

William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

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

» I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

» I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

» And say my glory was I had such friends.

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

» Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

» We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

» When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

» Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.

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