We can only begin to live when we conceive life as Tragedy. William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while. William Butler Yeats daughter inspirational art Those men that in their writings are most wise William Butler Yeats wisdom wise writing For wisdom is the property of the dead, William Butler Yeats moon wisdom life Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young William Butler Yeats ignorant youth wisdom Man's life is thought, William Butler Yeats men life thinking I summon to the winding ancient stair; William Butler Yeats thoughtful mind thinking Because of something told under the famished horn William Butler Yeats women dream beauty If Michael, leader of God's host William Butler Yeats leader doors beauty And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance. William Butler Yeats fiddle ireland-and-the-irish dance Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire. William Butler Yeats Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. William Butler Yeats You shall go with me, newly-married bride,And gaze upon a merrier multitude.White-armed Nuala, Aengus of the Birds,Feachra of the hurtling form, and himWho is the ruler of the Western Host,Finvara, and their Land of Heart's Desire.Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. William Butler Yeats For everything you have missed, you have gained something else. Ralph Waldo Emerson American essayist, lecturer and poet (1803-1882) William Butler Yeats The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God the herdsman treads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. William Butler Yeats We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it. William Butler Yeats