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

“The last stroke of midnight dies.”

“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.”

“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”

“The Coming of Wisdom with Time”

“Come away, O, human child!”

“I balanced all, brought all to mind,”

“Its dark and I’m reading my scars because our moments remind me of where I should be.”

“I'm going to do something bigger and better,”

“Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent”

“Poetry can unleash a terrible fear. I suppose it is the fear of possibilities, too many possibilities, each with its own endless set of variations. It's like looking too closely and too long into a mirror; soon your features distort, then erupt. You look too closely into your poems, or listen too closely to them as they arrive in whispers, and the features inside you - call it heart, call it mind, call it soul - accelerate out of control. They distort and they erupt, and it is one strange pain. You realize, then, that you can't attempt breaking down too many barriers in too short a time, because there are as many horrors waiting to get in at you as there are parts of yourself pushing to break out, and with the same, or more, fevered determination.”

“The first bud of spring sings the other seeds into joining her uprising.”