W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

One should say before sleeping: I have lived many lives. I have been a slave and a prince. Many a beloved has sat upon my knee and I have sat upon the knees of many a beloved. Everything that has been shall be again.

W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

Our own acts are isolated and one act does not buy absolution for another.

W. B. Yeats

Our words must seem to be inevitable.

W. B. Yeats

People are responsible for their opinions, but Providence is responsible for their morals.

W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.

W. B. Yeats

Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.

W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats