It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield. William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone. William Butler Yeats bones filled healing Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! William Butler Yeats flower rose sweet Things fall apart; the center cannot hold. William Butler Yeats falling-apart life fall One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, William Butler Yeats bending-down love men Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart. William Butler Yeats tired heart hands Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round. William Butler Yeats bags dream littles Any fool can fight a winning battle, but it needs character to fight a losing one, and that should inspire us; which reminds me that I dreamed the other night that I was being hanged, but was the life and soul of the party. William Butler Yeats party fighting character The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream. William Butler Yeats unseen dream reality In dreams begins responsibility. William Butler Yeats dream inspirational life Myself I must remake. William Butler Yeats remakes All that I have said and done, William Butler Yeats done night lying As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams. William Butler Yeats uplifting spiritual dream Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh. William Butler Yeats glasses wine eye All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. William Butler Yeats empty opinion soul I dreamed that I stood in a valley, and amid sighs, William Butler Yeats lost-love dream fall Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. William Butler Yeats triumph overcoming joy Everything in nature is resurrection. William Butler Yeats environmental resurrection And wisdom is a butterfly William Butler Yeats optimism butterfly wisdom Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. William Butler Yeats buckets hills companion Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by William Butler Yeats eye tombstone life
