“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”
Women
“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
TruthAll 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“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
Friendship“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
Anger“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“In dreams begins responsibility.”
Dreams“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
Dreams“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“Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
Dreams“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
Saintpatricksday“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”
Best“The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.”
Great“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
Poetry“Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
Best“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“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
Education“I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.”
Age“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
Hope“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
Alone“I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death.”
Death