For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, lecturer and poet (1803-1882) William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: William Butler Yeats naturemoonheart The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed. William Butler Yeats bedpoetrymen Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply. William Butler Yeats what-ifimaginationrunning An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick William Butler Yeats elderlytimemen You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements. William Butler Yeats truthlyingideas I sat, a solitary man, In a crowded London shop, An open book and empty cup On the marble table-top. While on the shop and street I gazed My body of a sudden blazed; And twenty minutes more or less It seemed, so great my happiness, That I was blessed and could bless. William Butler Yeats blessedmenbook Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring. William Butler Yeats lonelyspringlife Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats cast-awaylightwriting One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end. William Butler Yeats getting-highangerends Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste. William Butler Yeats swagdesignthinking I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher. William Butler Yeats swingsmenbelieve I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember William Butler Yeats dreamoxforddoe How can we know the dancer from the dance? William Butler Yeats danceinspirationallife Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest. William Butler Yeats tongueguestsworld How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart. William Butler Yeats weddingstarsmemories THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes. William Butler Yeats voiceeyethinking I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again. William Butler Yeats battlewinninglost Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth. William Butler Yeats flowerrootslying This great purple butterfly, William Butler Yeats butterflygardeneye Hearts with one purpose alone/Through summer and winter seem/Enchanted to a stone/To trouble the living stream. William Butler Yeats summerheartwinter
