William Butler Yeats

"The unpurged images of day recede."

"Tread softly because you tread on my dreams."

"Once more the storm is howling, and half hid under this cradle-hood."

"Among school children, we see the passage of time and beauty's decay."

"The second coming brings rough beasts slouching."

"Leda did not know what fowl she was dealing with."

"Dancing days are done, we must endure."

"The peacock screams but cannot fly."

"Love is like the lion's tooth."

"Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, I would spread them under your feet."

"A mermaid found a swimming lad, picked him for her own."

"How strange it seems that all the treasures of my mind are you."

"Burning Rome burned to the ground."

"The years like great black oxen tread the world."

"That dolphin-torn, that gong-tormented sea."

"We are happy when for everything inside us, there is a corresponding something outside."

"Beauty and foolishness meet in the eye."

"Art is the effort of man to express, not to expose, his idea of nature."

"The god walked among men in such a shape as every woman lusted for."

"Symbols are the property of all mankind."

"What more have I to say; all that I have to declare is that we have inherited this struggle."

"The mask outlasts the man."

"We should make poetry out of our daily suffering."

"Every man is mad some months of the year."

"The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of."

"Love is nearer by contraries."

"The lamp of sacrifice burns bright."

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

"In dreams begins responsibility."

"A woman can be proud and stiff when on her pedestal."