William Butler Yeats Quotes

William Butler Yeats
Irish Poet
Born: Jun 13, 1865
Died: Jan 28, 1939
Best Heart Man Truth World You
Related authors: Eavan Boland John Millington Synge Oliver Goldsmith Patrick Kavanagh Seamus Heaney Thomas Moore William Allingham
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. William Butler Yeats
Dreams You Will Must Wrap Take Bag Little Round Cord
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats
Love Heart Hid Telling Beyond Pity
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. William Butler Yeats
Great Heart Mother Hatred Out Carry Maimed Come Womb Ireland Fanatic Little Room Us Start
But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? William Butler Yeats
Dog Praised His Fleas Ever
To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful. William Butler Yeats
Beautiful Woman Women Speak School Must Born Know Although Labor
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. William Butler Yeats
Sex Topics Mood Only Studious Dead Opinion Am Least Still Interest Serious Two
An intellectual hatred is the worst. William Butler Yeats
Hatred Worst Intellectual
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. William Butler Yeats
Wisdom Conversation Weary Pride Thought Nothing Action Living Design Unless Spend Books Paper Dead Repair Get May Asleep Who Waste
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught. William Butler Yeats
Will Thought Our Has-Been Seem Take Hours Does Line Been Stitching Maybe Us Naught Moment
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. William Butler Yeats
Best People Mind Imagination Starving Philosophy Logic Best Part Rational Part Lean End Who Exposition
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. William Butler Yeats
Man Soul Every Unless Clap Dress Mortal Sing Stick Louder Hands Aged Coat Thing Paltry
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. William Butler Yeats
Best Rest Down Draws Bucket Soon Hill Your Choose Who Companions
I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age. William Butler Yeats
Age Long Healthy Our Minds Am Improve Race Lived
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats
Day Light Cast Writings Accursed Who Away Brings
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