William Butler Yeats Quotes

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.

William Butler Yeats

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: poet
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939

Topics

TruthGiftThinkBetterMouthRight

I sometimes buy albums that I don't like now, but that I know I will like. Coming out was the same thing. In high school, I thought, 'I know I'm going to have to deal with this, but I'm not confident enough now.' But when I finally did, my whole life changed.

John Cameron Mitchell

LifeSchoolHigh SchoolThoughtKnow

A catwalk show is just how it's done; it's just what you do - it's central to the presentation of a collection. It will be a very brave designer who gives up the catwalk entirely in favour of a digital show.

Matthew Williamson

BraveYouDoneWillDigitalUp

I was raised a Catholic, so I can even feel a little, you know, embarrassed or guilty if I'm really offending people's sensibilities. To a degree.

Stephen Adly Guirgis

PeopleFeelYouGuiltyI CanKnow

To intoxicate the masses until they were heady with the wine of inspiration was all I lived for. To me, this was elixir... I wax lyrical. I literally am overcome, and this is transmitted to my listeners.

Sukarno

MeWineOvercomeInspirationLived

Activism, to me, I don't know if it really works. It may work for somebody else, but it does not work for me.

Tommy Chong

WorkMeKnowActivismMaySomebody

I have no problem with women in the military, if that's what they want to do.

Lorraine Bracco

WomenProblemWantMilitary

Musically, swing pretty much dominated in the '30s. And into the late '30s, swing is beginning to change over to bebop in the early '40s, which is exactly when this new science of theoretical physics, particularly theoretical atomic physics, was really coming to the fore.

Chris Eigeman

ChangeScienceBeginningPhysicsNew

I must have been one of the least surprised people on earth on September 11. I felt very braced for that. I knew something like that was going to come.

Christopher Hitchens

PeopleEarthGoingSeptemberBeen

It is not possible to make great buildings, or great towns, beautiful places, places where you feel yourself, places where you feel alive, except by following this way. And, as you will see, this way will lead anyone who looks for it to buildings which are themselves as ancient in their form, as the trees and hills, and as our faces are.

Christopher Alexander

BeautifulGreatYourselfTreesYou

I'm afraid of what happens if this career doesn't pan out, because I have so much invested in it that I can't turn back now.

Columbus Short

BackCareerNowAfraidTurnOut

My dad had a habit of giving me the Abdullah the Butcher matches as well as the ones with tables and chairs - basically, the matches that went all over the building.

Cody Rhodes

HabitMeBuildingGivingOverWell

I've always been a huge John Guare fan. But Edward Albee - he just can't be beat.

Colin Donnell

AlwaysBeatBeenJustFanHe

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