A spot whereon the founders lived and died William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye. William Butler Yeats heartgoodbyechildren And when you sigh from kiss to kiss William Butler Yeats kissingwhitebeauty Our words must seem to be inevitable. William Butler Yeats inevitableour-wordswriting Locke sank into a swoon; The Garden died; God took the spinning-jenny Out of his side. William Butler Yeats jennyspinninggarden What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink? William Butler Yeats ashesfirememories There is no deformity But saves us from a dream. William Butler Yeats deformityimperfectiondream I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart. William Butler Yeats wombmotherheart If a powerful and benevolent spirit has shaped the destiny of this world, we can better discover that destiny from the words that have gathered up the heart's desire of the world, than from historical records, or from speculation, wherein the heart withers. William Butler Yeats destinypowerfulheart For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular, and full of influence; And should they paint or write still is it action, The struggle of the fly in marmalade. William Butler Yeats strugglewritingworld God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days. William Butler Yeats wingsgivingheaven Many times man lives and dies William Butler Yeats racemenlife Though leaves are many, the root is one. William Butler Yeats roots Shakespeare cared little for the State, the source of all our judgments, apart from its shows and splendours, its turmoils and battles, its flamings out of the uncivilized heart. William Butler Yeats battleheartlittles Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. William Butler Yeats enduremomentsmen Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else. William Butler Yeats piecesbecomingliterature Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it. William Butler Yeats storiesideasneeds When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. William Butler Yeats donesoulsweet Give to these children, new from the world, William Butler Yeats menlifechildren It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring. William Butler Yeats adamfallneeds An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind? William Butler Yeats hatredwindthinking
