35 quotes by William Butler Yeats

“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'” — William Butler Yeats

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“I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.” — William Butler Yeats

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“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.” — William Butler Yeats

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“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.” — William Butler Yeats

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“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

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“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.” — William Butler Yeats

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“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” — William Butler Yeats

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“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” — William Butler Yeats

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