W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

The poet is a good citizen turned inside out.

W. B. Yeats

The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

W. B. Yeats

The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

W. B. Yeats

The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.

W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

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.

W. B. Yeats

There is another world, but it is in this one.

W. B. Yeats