1. William Butler Yeats - “One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.”

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2. William Butler Yeats - “And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?”

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3. William Butler Yeats - “Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.”

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4. William Butler Yeats - “I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have a wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.”

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5. William Butler Yeats - “Wine come 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.”

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6. William Butler Yeats - “O chestnut-tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance, How can we know the dancer from the dance?”

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7. William Butler Yeats - “In dreams begins responsibility.”

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8. William Butler Yeats - “The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

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9. William Butler Yeats - “Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half-light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”

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10. William Butler Yeats - “In dreams begin responsibility.”

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11. William Butler Yeats - “A pity beyond all telling Is hid in the heart of love.”

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12. William Butler Yeats - “An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress.”

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13. William Butler Yeats - “I heard the old, old men say 'All that's beautiful drifts away Like the waters.'”

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14. William Butler Yeats - “Dream, dream, for this is also sooth.”

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15. William Butler Yeats - “But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on n dreams.”

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16. William Butler Yeats - “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

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17. William Butler Yeats - “An intellectual hate is the worst.”

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18. William Butler Yeats - “I will arise and go now and go to Innisfree And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made: Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee, And live alone in the bee-loud glade.”

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19. William Butler Yeats - “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.”

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20. William Butler Yeats - “Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence.”

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21. William Butler Yeats - “Things said or done long years ago Or things I did not do or say But thought that I might say or do, Weigh me down, and not a day But something is recalled, My conscience or my vanity appalled.”

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22. William Butler Yeats - “Think where man's glory most begins and ends, And say my glory was I had such friends.”

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23. William Butler Yeats - “Down by the salley gardens my love and I did meet; She passed the salley gardens with little snow-white feet. She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.”

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24. William Butler Yeats - “O what fine thought we had because we thought that the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”

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25. William Butler Yeats - “Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice?”

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