William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) quotes

• An intellectual hatred is the worst.
• And say my glory was I had such friends.
• But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you are treading on my dreams.
• Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, for the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
• I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters'.
• I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.
• If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
• Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.
• Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?
• We are happy when for everything inside of us there is a corresponding something outside us.