Wisdom Quote by W.B. Yeats — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Come away, O, human child!”

“Before me floats an image, man or shade,”

“The Magi”

“May it not even be that death shall unite us to all romance, and that some day we shall fight dragons among blue hills, or come to that whereof all romance is but”

“I went out to the hazel wood”

“How far away the stars seem, and how far”

“Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.”

“...it is never safe to classify the souls of one's neighbors; one is apt, in the long run, to be proved a fool. You should regard each meeting with a friend as a sitting he is unwillingly giving you for a portrait -- a portrait that, probably, when you or he die, will still be unfinished. And, though this is an absorbing pursuit, nevertheless, the painters are apt to end pessimists. For however handsome and merry may be the face, however rich the background, in the first rough sketch of each portrait, yet with every added stroke of the brush, with every tiny readjustment of the 'values,' with every modification of the chiaroscuro, the eyes looking out at you grow more disquieting. And, finally, it is your”

“The moon will guide you through the night with her brightness, but she will always dwell in the darkness, in order to be seen.”

“Wisdom ain't a virtue I ever aspired to.”

“Our entire life worth's less than one moment of the absolute's truth vanity.”