It’s certain that fine women eat A crazy salad with their meat.
William Butler Yeats
Crazy Salad, Fine Women, Quirky Nature, Feminine Complexity, Playful Humor, Balanced Taste
William Butler Yeats’s Quotes On Topics
Ancient Belief | Aging Joy | Ascent | Frustration | Cromwell’s Legacy | Destruction | Night | Haunted Corridor | Refined Emotion | Inner Reflection | Artistic Evolution | Crack-Pated Thoughts | Uniqueness Question | Love’s Growth | Nightfall | Lingering Love | Unforeseen Time | Sincere Moments | Chaos And Collapse | Heartfelt Struggle | More
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“What can be explained is not poetry.” William Butler Yeats
Explained Poetry, Beyond Words, Unspoken Art, Imagination, Mystery, Depth
William Butler Yeats Explained Poetry, Beyond Words, Unspoken Art, Imagination, Mystery, Depth“And learn that the best thing is To change my loves while dancing And pay but a kiss for a kiss.” William Butler Yeats
Changing Loves, Dancing Kiss, Fleeting, Love, Exchange, Experience
William Butler Yeats Changing Loves, Dancing Kiss, Fleeting, Love, Exchange, Experience“When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream...” William Butler Yeats
Passionate Struggle, Mortal Trials, Sacred Imagery, Passion, Trials, Sacred
William Butler Yeats Passionate Struggle, Mortal Trials, Sacred Imagery, Passion, Trials, Sacred“Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.” William Butler Yeats
Mystic Power, Timeless Wisdom, Ancient Belief, Scholarly Insight, Spiritual Depth, Enduring Influence
William Butler Yeats Mystic Power, Timeless Wisdom, Ancient Belief, Scholarly Insight, Spiritual Depth, Enduring Influence“We are fastened to a dying animal.” William Butler Yeats
Dying Animal, Human Mortality, Fragility Of Life, Existence, Nature, Mortality
William Butler Yeats Dying Animal, Human Mortality, Fragility Of Life, Existence, Nature, Mortality“Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.” William Butler Yeats
Friendship, Tragedy, Beauty, Aging, Loss, Loneliness
William Butler Yeats Friendship, Tragedy, Beauty, Aging, Loss, Loneliness“In dreams begins responsibility.” William Butler Yeats
Dreams’ Weight, Visionary Thoughts, Accountability’s Start, Imagination, Reflection, Purpose
William Butler Yeats Dreams’ Weight, Visionary Thoughts, Accountability’s Start, Imagination, Reflection, Purpose“A drunkard is a dead man And all dead men are drunk.” William Butler Yeats
Drunken Stupor, Death’s Metaphor, Life’s Warnings, Drunkard, Death, Metaphor
William Butler Yeats Drunken Stupor, Death’s Metaphor, Life’s Warnings, Drunkard, Death, Metaphor“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” William Butler Yeats
Best Lacking, Passionate Worst, Conviction And Intensity, Extremes, Judgment, Reflection
William Butler Yeats Best Lacking, Passionate Worst, Conviction And Intensity, Extremes, Judgment, Reflection“You know what the Englishman’s idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.” William Butler Yeats
Compromise Idea, Englishman Truth, God Debate, Compromise, God, Truth
William Butler Yeats Compromise Idea, Englishman Truth, God Debate, Compromise, God, Truth“The friends that have I do it wrong Whenever I remake a song, Should know what issue is at stake: It is myself that I remake.” William Butler Yeats
Personal Growth, Friendship Misunderstandings, Creative Process, Growth, Friendship, Creativity
William Butler Yeats Personal Growth, Friendship Misunderstandings, Creative Process, Growth, Friendship, Creativity“No man has ever lived that had enough of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.” William Butler Yeats
Unfulfilled Love, Gratitude Yearning, Eternal Desire, Gratitude, Love, Enough
William Butler Yeats Unfulfilled Love, Gratitude Yearning, Eternal Desire, Gratitude, Love, Enough“I summon to the winding ancient stair; Set all your mind upon the steep ascent.” William Butler Yeats
Ancient Stair, Steep Ascent, Mind’s Focus, Stair, Ascent, Mind
William Butler Yeats Ancient Stair, Steep Ascent, Mind’s Focus, Stair, Ascent, Mind“Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams.” William Butler Yeats
Softly Tread, Dreams Touched, Fragility, Care, Sensitivity, Hope
William Butler Yeats Softly Tread, Dreams Touched, Fragility, Care, Sensitivity, Hope“I pray-for fashion’s word is out And prayer comes round again- That I may seem, though I die old, A foolish, passionate man.” William Butler Yeats
Passionate Man, Foolish Prayer, Aging Grace, Man, Prayer, Passion
William Butler Yeats Passionate Man, Foolish Prayer, Aging Grace, Man, Prayer, Passion“The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.” William Butler Yeats
Cosmic Energy, Inner Awakening, Celestial Inspiration, Winds, Stars, Inspiration
William Butler Yeats Cosmic Energy, Inner Awakening, Celestial Inspiration, Winds, Stars, Inspiration“But O, sick children of the world, Of all the many changing things In dreary dancing past us whirled, To the cracked tune that Chronos sings, Words alone are certain good.” William Butler Yeats
Sick Children, Changing Things, Chronos Tune, Mortality, Words, Certainty
William Butler Yeats Sick Children, Changing Things, Chronos Tune, Mortality, Words, Certainty“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” William Butler Yeats
Time’s Passing, Beauty’s Frailty, Innocence Lost, Mortality, Reflection, Youth
William Butler Yeats Time’s Passing, Beauty’s Frailty, Innocence Lost, Mortality, Reflection, Youth“Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that’s a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.” William Butler Yeats
Love, Study, Passion, Hatred, Control, Understanding
William Butler Yeats Love, Study, Passion, Hatred, Control, Understanding