W.B. Yeats Quotes

"I thought of your beauty, and this arrow, / Made out of a wild thought, is in my marrow."

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate intensity."

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends."

"It is a hard thing to be married to a man of learning that must always be having arguments."

"Who knows that shadows may not have driven you mad for their own sport?"

"...Nor can there be a work so greatAs that which cleans man's dirty slate."

"He knows death to the bone -Man has created death."

"Wisdom and dreams are one, For dreams are the flowers ablow,And Wisdom the fruit of the garden: God planted him long ago."

"I have ice on my head"

"I'm blowing awaaayyyy"

"The reeds are dancing by Coolaney lake, / And I would like to dance until the reeds / And the white waves have danced themselves asleep."

"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"

"If we could love and hate with as good heart as the faeries do, we might grow to be long-lived like them."

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends,And say my glory was I had such friends."

"“What do we know but that we face one another in this place?”"

"I'm blowing awaayyyyyyyy"

"So who's this Beardyman I'm hearing about?"

"Among what rushes will they build,By what lake's edge or poolDelight men's eyes when I awake some dayTo find they have flown away?"

"""Joy is of the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph."""

"And twenty minutes more or less / It seemed, so great my happiness, / That I was blessed and could bless."