William Butler Yeats

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

"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 …"

"Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labour of its unfamiliar thought."

"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…"

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

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

"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."