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William Butler Yeats Quotes
Page 4 of 4William Butler Yeats
June 13, 1865 - January 28, 1939
Nationality: Irish
Category: Poet
Subcategory: Irish Poet
|  Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. | | I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' | | But was there ever dog that praised his fleas? | | Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. | | Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult. | | Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. | | An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress. |
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