A statesman is an easy man, He tells his lies by rote; A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat; So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.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 my dreams.William Butler Yeats
Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.William Butler Yeats
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.William Butler Yeats
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'William Butler Yeats
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric; of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.William Butler Yeats
Only that which does not teach, which does not cry out, which does not condescend, which does not explain, is irresistible.William Butler Yeats
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.William Butler Yeats
She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree.William Butler Yeats
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.William Butler Yeats
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.William Butler Yeats
