The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it. William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats Fair and foul are near of kin And fair needs foul," I cried. "My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied." William Butler Yeats bedtruthfriendship A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats dreamlovelife Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. William Butler Yeats exampleheart Whatever flames upon the night Man's own resinous heart has fed. William Butler Yeats heartmennight If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf William Butler Yeats hatredmindwind All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart. William Butler Yeats brokenheartchildren Who mocks at music mocks at love. William Butler Yeats love Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality. William Butler Yeats inequalitylove-islove I hear it in the deep heart's core. William Butler Yeats deep-heartcoreheart Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. William Butler Yeats landheartsong The Mask "Put off that mask of burning gold With emerald eyes." "O no, my dear, you make so bold To find if hearts be wild and wise, And yet not cold." "I would but find what's there to find, Love or deceit." "It was the mask engaged your mind, And after set your heart to beat, Not what's behind." "But lest you are my enemy, I must enquire." "O no, my dear, let all that be, What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?" William Butler Yeats eyewiseheart The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. William Butler Yeats fascinationheartjoy O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head You'd know the folly of being comforted. William Butler Yeats follyturnsheart Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty. William Butler Yeats savageslibertyworld We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. William Butler Yeats laughterjoyhappiness The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong. William Butler Yeats resonancesongnight Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams. William Butler Yeats his-lovedreammen Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled. William Butler Yeats vanitylongyears A poet is a good citizen turned inside out. William Butler Yeats good-citizenpoetcitizens Hammer your thoughts into unity. William Butler Yeats hammersunity
