William Butler Yeats

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath…

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of…

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them…

The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity…

But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your…

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

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best…

I think it better that in times like these a poet’s mouth be silent, for…

I heard the old, old, men say ‘all that’s beautiful drifts away, like the waters…

Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will…

In dreams begins responsibility…

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire…

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise…

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are…

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We…