“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
William Butler Yeats“The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.”
William Butler Yeats“One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”
William Butler Yeats“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”
William Butler Yeats“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
William Butler Yeats“How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.”
William Butler Yeats“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”
William Butler Yeats“Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking. ”
William Butler Yeats“I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.”
William Butler Yeats“I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'”
William Butler Yeats“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.”
William Butler Yeats