William Butler Yeats Quotes

Irish - Poet | June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler Yeats

JoyTragedyIrishHimThroughSense

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

William Butler Yeats

SoulEnergyStrongerTemptationNew

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

William Butler Yeats

PoetryRhetoricOthersOutQuarrel

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.

William Butler Yeats

LoveTruthDatingEyeWineGrow

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

GodGreatBrokenI AmWorldFeet

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

William Butler Yeats

YouKindWayOpenLegislationOnce

And say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

FriendsGlorySayHad

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

AloneHistoryManMeBookThink

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

William Butler Yeats

HappyInsideOutsideEverythingUs

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

William Butler Yeats

LoveHateFightGuardThose

A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

William Butler Yeats

MomentThoughtWillLineSeemTake

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.

William Butler Yeats

BeautifulPeopleRememberDreamSing

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