God spreads the heavens above us like great wings
And gives a little round of deeds and days,
And then come the wrecked angels and set snares,
And bait them with light hopes and heavy dreams,
Until the heart is puffed with pride and goes
Half shuddering and half joyous from God's peace;
And it was some wrecked angel, blind with tears,
Who flattered Edane's heart with merry words.

Come, faeries, take me out of this dull house!
Let me have all the freedom I have lost;
Work when I will and idle when I will!
Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.

I would take the world
And break it into pieces in my hands
To see you smile watching it crumble away.

Once a fly dancing in a beam of the sun,
Or the light wind blowing out of the dawn,
Could fill your heart with dreams none other knew,
But now the indissoluble sacrament
Has mixed your heart that was most proud and cold
With my warm heart for ever; the sun and moon
Must fade and heaven be rolled up like a scroll
But your white spirit still walk by my spirit.

When winter sleep is abroad my hair grows thin,
My feet unsteady. When the leaves awaken
My mother carries me in her golden arms;
I'll soon put on my womanhood and marry
The spirits of wood and water, but who can tell
When I was born for the first time?

The wind blows out of the gates of the day,
The wind blows over the lonely of heart,
And the lonely of heart is withered away;
While the faeries dance in a place apart,
Shaking their milk-white feet in a ring,
Tossing their milk-white arms in the air;
For they hear the wind laugh and murmur and sing
Of a land where even the old are fair,
And even the wise are merry of tongue;
But I heard a reed of Coolaney say--
When the wind has laughed and murmured and sung,
The lonely of heart is withered away.


W.B. Yeats

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Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unsti...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
You shall go with me, newly-married bride,
And gaze upon a merrier multitude.
White-armed Nual...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort tha...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
To me the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't.
FRANCIS YEATS BROWN
Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covere...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed t...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
A DEEP-SWORN VOW Others because you did not keep That deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine; Ye...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opini...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
In dreams begin responsibility.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
In dreams begins responsibility.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious m...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The land of fairy, where nobody gets old and godly and grave, where nobody gets old and crafty and w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambas...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of jo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly becaus...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alon...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Befo...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy whe...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before w...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Too long a sacrifice/ Can make a stone of the heart. -William Butler Yeats.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take th...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, becau...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cravin...
J. B. YEATS
Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint. - Letters to His Son, W. B. ...
J. B. YEATS
Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man cra...
J. B. YEATS
All empty sould tend toward extreme opinions.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
We . . . are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift,...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
And say my glory was I had such friends.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light,
The blue and ...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
I call on those that call me son,Grandson, or great-grandson,On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
When two close kindred meetWhat better than call a dance?
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
We were the last romantics -- chose for themeTraditional sanctity and loveliness.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. S...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my moth...
WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS