William Butler Yeats

"There is a land of the living and a land of the dead, and the bridge is love."

"The mind that would be alone must cut itself off."

"Happiness is not always of strength or intellect, but of peace."

"Every moment of pain brings wisdom."

"The greatest teacher of all is time itself."

"Music is the mathematics of the soul."

"What portion of the world can the artist claim as his own?"

"To be at peace with oneself is to have overcome the greatest enemy."

"The heart asks a more direct route."

"We cannot live only by plucking fruits; we must also plant seeds."

"Freedom lies only in the pursuit of the impossible."

"The supreme accomplishment is to blur the line between work and play."

"All things weary of themselves; therefore I go."

"I am tortured by an intellectual conscience that will not let me believe what I wish to believe."

"The touch of your hand makes my pulse leap."

"That is no country for the young—nor for the old, but for the in-between."

"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."

"Man can embody truth, but he cannot know it."

"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."

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

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

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

"To live as if death were not, is to live as a fool."

"The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life or of the work."

"We are dying each moment and being born again."

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

"All things fall and are built again, and those that build them again are gay."

"The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."