“But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Dreams
“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
WisdomAll Quotes by William Butler Yeats
“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.”
Men“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”
Romantic“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
Men“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
Truth“In dreams begins responsibility.”
Dreams“Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.”
Great“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
Alone“You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.”
God“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”
Happiness“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Education“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Poetry“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”
God“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
Business“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”
Time“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
Dreams“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
Hope“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
Best“Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.”
Courage“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
Women