Quotes by W.B. Yeats

I thought no more was needed Youth to prolong Than dumbbell and foil To keep the body young. Oh, who could have foretold That the heart grows old?

— W.B. Yeats

Love

Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

— W.B. Yeats

Life

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?

— W.B. Yeats

Wisdom

In dreams begins responsibility.

— W.B. Yeats

Hope

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

— W.B. Yeats

Friendship

Now that my ladder's gone I must lie down where all the ladders start In the foul rag and bone shop of the heart.

— W.B. Yeats

Love

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time.

— W.B. Yeats

Wisdom

Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.

— W.B. Yeats

Wisdom

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

— W.B. Yeats

Wisdom

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

— W.B. Yeats

Love

An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.

— W.B. Yeats

Wisdom