William Butler Yeats

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

— William Butler Yeats

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

— William Butler Yeats

The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.

— William Butler Yeats

The light of lights always looks on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

— William Butler Yeats

The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

— William Butler Yeats

There are no strangers here Only friends you haven't yet met.

— William Butler Yeats

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

— William Butler Yeats

Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

— William Butler Yeats

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

— William Butler Yeats

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart.

— William Butler Yeats