If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 6
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
I sigh that kiss you, For I must own That I shall miss you When you have grown. William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
How can we know the dancer from the dance? William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 3
"Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'. William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 1
Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O. When may it suffice? William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
No expectation fails there, No pleasing habit ends, No man grows old, no girl grows cold, But friends walk by friends. William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
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. William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes. William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
When two close kindred meet What better than call a dance? William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
Out of Ireland have we come. Great hatred, little room, Maimed us at the start. William Butler Yeats Irish Writer More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0
Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends. William Butler Yeats Irish Poet More William Butler Yeats Quotes 0