The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart. — William Butler Yeats
The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind — William Butler Yeats
To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school – women must labor to be beautiful. — William Butler Yeats
We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. — William Butler Yeats
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry. — William Butler Yeats
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry. — William Butler Yeats
Joy is the will which labours, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. — William Butler Yeats
The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life or of the work. — William Butler Yeats
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. — William Butler Yeats
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend — William Butler Yeats
Style, personality – deliberately adopted and therefore a mask – is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. — William Butler Yeats
The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. — William Butler Yeats
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober. — William Butler Yeats
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — William Butler Yeats
No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love. — William Butler Yeats