William Butler Yeats ( 10 of 25 )
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth read more
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.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, read more
Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and read more
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least
interest to a serious and studious mood--sex and the dead.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.
Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes read more
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.
