William Butler Yeats Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”

“Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.”

“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”

“An intellectual hatred is the worst.”

“The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.”

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

“You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.”

“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”

“I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.”

“Talent perceives differences; genius, unity.”