Yeats Quotes

Who mocks at music mocks at love. - William Butler Yeats

Who can tell the dancer from the dance? - William Butler Yeats

Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,
That long to give themselves for wage,
To shake their wicked sides at youth
Restraining reckless middle age? - William Butler Yeats

Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh. - William Butler Yeats

Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. - William Butler Yeats

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. - William Butler Yeats

When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before. - William Butler Yeats

When two close kindred meet
What better than call a dance? - William Butler Yeats

When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest. - William Butler Yeats

When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats. - Howard Nemerov