William Butler Yeats Quotes

But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.

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And I will find some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,/ Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings.

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Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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Nothing that we love overmuch Is ponderable to our touch.

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Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

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I hear it in the deep heart's core.

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While on that old grey stone I sat Under the old wind-broken tree, I knew that One is animate, Mankind inanimate phantasy.

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Where the world ends The mind is made unchanging, for it finds Miracle, ecstasy, the impossible hope, The flagstone under all, the fire of fires, The roots of the world.

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Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

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For Death who takes what man would keep, Leaves what man would lose.

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Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, Until old age brings the red flare again.

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Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

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Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

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Where the wave of moonlight glosses The dim gray sands with light, Far off by furthest Rosses We foot it all the night, Weaving olden dances, Mingling hands and mingling glances Till the moon has taken flight; To and fro we leap And chase the frothy bubbles, While the world is full of troubles And is anxious in its sleep. . . .

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All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

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All the stream that's roaring by Came out of a needle's eye.

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Him who trembles before the flame and the flood, And the winds that blow through the starry ways, Let the starry winds and the flame and the flood Cover over and hide, for he has no part With the lonely, majestical multitude.

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I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

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A living man is blind and drinks his drop. What matter if the ditches are impure? What matter if I live it all once more?

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I--though heart might find relief Did I become a Christian man and choose for my belief What seems most welcome in the tomb--play a predestined part. Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.

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