William Butler Yeats quotes

“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

“Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.”

— William Butler Yeats

“Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.”

— William Butler Yeats

“People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.”

— William Butler Yeats

“All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.”

— William Butler Yeats

“I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.”

— William Butler Yeats

“Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.”

— William Butler Yeats