William Butler Yeats

“The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.”

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”

“Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.”

“The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.”

“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”

“I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.”

“If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.”

“To be born woman is to know - although they do not speak of it at school - women must labor to be beautiful.”

“Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.”

“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”