William Butler Yeats

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples…

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time…

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That’s all…

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams…

I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough…

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from…

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and…

Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had…

You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to…

You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there…

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may…

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of…

I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age…

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start…

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it…