Quotes By William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

In dreams begins responsibility. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

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

William Butler Yeats

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all. by William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats