William Butler Yeats

"One day when I was twenty-three or twenty-four this sentence seemed to form in my head, without my willing it, much as sentences form when we are half-asleep: "Hammer your thoughts into unity." For da…"

"I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day."

"The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart, 1899"

"The Second Coming, 1921"

"We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because …"

"The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth."

"This country will not always be an uncomfortable place for a country gentleman to live in, and it is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am afraid that Labou…"

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