William Butler Yeats

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

— William Butler Yeats

No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

— William Butler Yeats

Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.

— William Butler Yeats

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

— William Butler Yeats

Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.

— William Butler Yeats

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

— William Butler Yeats

She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would not agree.

— William Butler Yeats

Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.

— William Butler Yeats

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

— William Butler Yeats

The best lack all conviction while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.

— William Butler Yeats