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

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

“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.”

“I went out to the hazel wood”

“And after all, can we come to so great evil if we keep a little fire on our hearths and in our souls, and welcome with open hand whatever of excellent come to warm itself, whether it be man or phantom, and do not say too fiercely, even to the dhouls themselves, ‘Be ye gone’? When all is said and done, how do we not know but that our own unreason may be better than another’s truth? For it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey. Come into the world again, wild bees, wild bees!”

“When you are old and grey and full of sleep”

“The Coming of Wisdom with Time”

“Our two souls therefore, which are one,”

“You do not know how much they mean to me, my friends,”

“At the round earth's imagined corners blow”

“Don't trust the heart, it wants your blood.”

“When I can feel you breathing into me i, like a stone gargoyle”

“Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art—”