And wisdom is a butterfly William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live. William Butler Yeats ecstasycontemplationindividuality A daughter of a King of Ireland, heard A voice singing on a May Eve like this, And followed half awake and half asleep, Until she came into the Land of Faery, Where nobody gets old and godly and grave, Where nobody gets old and crafty and wise, Where nobody gets old and bitter of tongue. And she is still there, busied with a dance Deep in the dewy shadow of a wood, Or where stars walk upon a mountain-top. William Butler Yeats daughterkingswise only an aching heart William Butler Yeats longingcreationart Gaze no more in the bitter glass William Butler Yeats glassesmirrorsreality Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others. William Butler Yeats visionliteraturemen Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats abidingtragedyjoy Man is in love and loves William Butler Yeats and-lovemen The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. William Butler Yeats shadowlightinspirational Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before. William Butler Yeats adversitysoultemptation What if the Church and the State William Butler Yeats governmentwinerunning Where there is nothing, there is God. William Butler Yeats And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches toward Bethlehem to be born? William Butler Yeats beasthourslasts The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. William Butler Yeats timebeautifulenemy The pain others give passes away in their later kindness, but that of our own blunders, especially when they hurt our vanity, never passes away William Butler Yeats painhurtkindness Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. William Butler Yeats wineloveromantic The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. William Butler Yeats heartlifeworld We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. William Butler Yeats argumentquarrelspoetry Nor law, nor duty bade me fight, Nor public men, nor cheering crowds, A lonely impulse of delight Drove to this tumult in the clouds. William Butler Yeats cheerlonelyloneliness Beloved, let your eyes half close, and your heart beat William Butler Yeats lonelypeacefall Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre 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. William Butler Yeats passionatebloodfall
