William Butler Yeats Quotes

I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs, Those undreamt accidents that have made me Seeing that Fame has perished this long while, Being but a part of ancient ceremony Notorious, till all my priceless things Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Forgiveness Quotes , Dog Quotes

If I make the lashes dark And the eyes more bright And the lips more scarlet, Or ask if all be right From mirror after mirror, No vanity's displayed: I'm looking for the face I had Before the world was made.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Eye Quotes , Dark Quotes

Through winter-time we call on spring, And through the spring on summer call, And when the abounding hedges ring Declare that winter's best of all: And after that there's nothing good Because the spring time has not come- Not know that what disturbs our blood Is but its longing for the tomb.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Death Quotes , Summer Quotes

What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Dream Quotes , Hair Quotes

Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease Ravening through century after century, Ravening, raging, and uprooting that he may come Into the desolation of reality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Life Quotes , Men Quotes

For what but eye and ear silence the mind With the minute particulars of mankind?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Eye Quotes , Silence Quotes

All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , God Quotes , Running Quotes

Life is a journey up a spiral staircase; as we grow older we cover the ground covered we have covered before, only higher up; as we look down the winding stair below us we measure our progress by the number of places where we were but no longer are. The journey is both repetitious and progressive; we go both round and upward.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Journey Quotes , Numbers Quotes

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Life Quotes , Night Quotes

When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance?.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Dance Quotes , Two Quotes

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Dream Quotes , Bags Quotes

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Dream Quotes

...How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true, But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face... "When You Are Old And Gray

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Love Quotes , Men Quotes

Laughter not time destroyed my voice And put that crack in it, And when the moon's pot-bellied I get a laughing fit.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Laughter Quotes , Moon Quotes

A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Drinking Quotes , Men Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Vanity Quotes , Years Quotes

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Winning Quotes , Battle Quotes

somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Moving Quotes , Men Quotes

The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain to the mind's eye than any face But that of Christ.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Eye Quotes , Imagination Quotes

The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : William Butler Yeats Quotes , Song Quotes , Night Quotes