W. B. Yeats

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

W. B. Yeats

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

W. B. Yeats

The poor have very few hours in which to enjoy themselves; they must take their pleasure raw; they haven’t the time to cook it.

W. B. Yeats

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

W. B. Yeats

The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.

W. B. Yeats

To keep happy seems like walking on stilts. When one is tired, one falls off.

W. B. Yeats

We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.

W. B. Yeats

Farewell – farewell, for I am weary of the weight of time.

W. B. Yeats

A drunkard is a dead man and all dead men are drunk.

W. B. Yeats

A king is but a foolish labourer who wastes his blood to be another’s dream.

W. B. Yeats