William Butler Yeats
“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”
“The official designs of the Government may be described as the silent ambassadors of national taste.”
“We can make our minds so like still water that beings may see their own images.”
“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning.”
“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”
“Wine comes in at the mouth, and love comes in at the eye.”
“Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild.”
“And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow.”
“I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree.”
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.”
“That is no country for old men.”
“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.”
“A terrible beauty is born.”
“What rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
“Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold.”
“I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”