William Butler Yeats

"Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal."

"Out of the quarrel with ourselves we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with others we make poetry."

"I made my song a coat covered with embroideries out of old mythologies."

"How should I presume?"

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."

"What else could modern literature be about but the flight from home?"

"We taste and feast on all that time can give without asking life to change."

"How the strong man exults in his strength."

"All that we have in common is history."

"The gyres turn and turn until the gyres turn again."

"A great man in his pride contemplates all the wisdom of the ancients."

"Whatever flames upon the night man's own resinous heart has fed."

"I cannot foretell the future because I am not the God."

"Sweet sounds are made by the little boy alone."

"There is design in what often seems to us mere chance."

"The ghost of Roger Casement is beating on the door."

"A sudden blow: the great wings beating still above the staggering girl."

"Among these bought and sold are numberless deaths."

"Why should we fear the coming night?"

"Loneliness gives reality to the imagined."

"Knowledge can be carried, but wisdom must be grown."

"Every pleasure has a pain attached, every payment its price."

"Freedom comes to those who write their own history."

"Peace is not the absence of conflict but the presence of understanding."

"The flower fades but the root remains."

"In science there is only physics; all the rest is stamp collecting."

"Music is the arithmetic of sounds as optics is the geometry of light."

"Faith is the bird that feels the light before the dawn."

"Good leaders are servants of something greater than themselves."

"Work is love made visible."