William Butler YeatsA collection of 35 posts

Saint Patricks Day

Being Irish he had an abiding sense of tragedy which sustained him through tem...

Women

To be born woman is to know – although they do not speak of it at school &...

Wisdom

If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.

Truth

I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent for in...

Truth

Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

Time

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

Romantic

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall...

Poetry

We make out of the quarrel with others rhetoric but of the quarrel with oursel...

Courage

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

Courage

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep...