Poetry Quote by William Butler Yeats — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;”

“To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart”

““Wine enters through the mouth,”

“I bring you with reverent hands”

“THOUGH you are in your shining days,”

“Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.”

“Be true to your word and your work and your friend.”

“My love is like a red, red rose”

“We look at the world once, in childhood.”

“This poem has been called obscure. I refuse to believe that it is obscurer than pity, violence, or suffering. But being a poem, not a lifetime, it is more compressed.”

“Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean,”

“Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity.”