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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.

William Butler Yeats

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

William Butler Yeats

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler Yeats

There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler Yeats

Think where mans glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler Yeats

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler Yeats

Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

William Butler Yeats

To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.

William Butler Yeats

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

William Butler Yeats

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

William Butler Yeats

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

William Butler Yeats

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

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

Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.

William Butler Yeats

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