5+ W.B. Yeats Quotes And Sayings

Following is our list of the best W.B. Yeats quotes and sayings.

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. — W.B. Yeats

To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart — W.B. Yeats

...nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. — W.B. Yeats

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry. — W.B. Yeats

Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. — W.B. Yeats