Author of quotes: William Butler Yeats

I have certainly seen more men ruined by the desire to have a wife and children and keep them in comfort than men ruined by drunkenness and whores.

When all has already been said and done, then our primordial foolishness, who knows, will not be more healing than another reasonable truth, for, warmed by the warmth of our native hearths and the flames of our hearts, it is ready to attract the wild bees of truth, so that they swarm, giving their sweet honey.

Poetry - if it is not the people's poetry conceals more than it expresses.

The poet must find joy that ever slips away.

I think that the normal state of our life - hate (I speak for myself): the irritation which cause public or private events or persons.

A hero loves the world till it overwhelms him, the poet - while he did not lose faith.

Quenched desire not the greatest of desires.

Only he is able to create the greatest conceivable beauty, who has experienced every conceivable torment.

From feuds with other people is the rhetoric of quarrels with ourselves poetry.

Folk art and actually has the oldest aristocracy of the spirit.

Power flatters everyone - women and men.

Though leaves are many, the root is.

So, the antiquity of don't pray.
In the dust lie its fulfillment.

Maybe the Earth itself
In the ringing emptiness of the Universe
A word, only a sudden shout,
Confused for a brief moment
The peace enthusiastically.