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Famous William Butler Yeats Quotes
“Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“The problem wiv some blokes is that wen they ain't drunk, they're sober.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”
“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
Source: Later Poems
“There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Source: Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”
“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.”
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
Source: Memoirs
“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”
Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS
“We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.”
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: John Sherman & Dhoya
“Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
“Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
“Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.”
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
Source: The Letters of W.B. Yeats
“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”