W. B. Yeats

It is one of the great troubles of life that we cannot have any unmixed emotions. There is always something in our enemy that we like, and something in our sweetheart that we dislike.

W. B. Yeats

It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

W. B. Yeats

Labour is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.

W. B. Yeats

Let the new faces play what tricks they will In the old rooms; night can outbalance day, Our shadows rove the garden gravel still, The living seem more shadowy than they.

W. B. Yeats

Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear.

W. B. Yeats

Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

W. B. Yeats

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours, until old age brings the red flare again.

W. B. Yeats

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

W. B. Yeats

Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.

W. B. Yeats

Man is in love and loves what vanishes, What more is there to say?

W. B. Yeats