William Butler YEATS: Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away.

William Butler YEATS: All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler YEATS: Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.

William Butler YEATS: Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

William Butler YEATS: Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.

William Butler YEATS: I am of a healthy long lived race, and our minds improve with age.

William Butler YEATS: If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler YEATS: Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution.

William Butler YEATS: Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

William Butler YEATS: The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

William Butler YEATS: The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

William Butler YEATS: There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

William Butler YEATS: Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

William Butler YEATS: You know what the Englishman's idea of compromise is? He says, Some people say there is a God. Some people say there is no God. The truth probably lies somewhere between these two statements.

William Butler YEATS: Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

William Butler YEATS: You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.