William Butler Yeats

"The best way to live is to act as if you are already dead."

"Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking."

"There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met."

"How can we know the dancer from the dance?"

"The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper."

"Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire."

"I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"There are things that are more important than living."

"The Irish avoid the truth because they excel in the business of telling lies."

"In the lost boyhood of Judas, Christ was kind."

"Sailing to Byzantium is not just a journey, it is a spiritual quest."

"All wisdom comes with eyeballs in the head."

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

"Hate is a great thing and can sustain the soul."

"I have nothing left but the truth."

"The trouble with Ireland is that it's a country full of genius, but with absolutely no talent."

"Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."

"Old age hath yet his honour and his toil."

"Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room."

"When you are old and grey and full of sleep."

"Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart."

"A prayer for my daughter reminds us to protect what we love."

"Why should not old men be mad?"

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."

"Surely some revelation is at hand."

"What if God is unjust?"

"The quality of life depends upon the balance of activity and repose."

"Come away, O human child, to the waters and the wild."

"Land of Heart's Desire, where beauty lives eternal."

"Death and life were not till man made up the whole, made lock and key."