William Butler Yeats Irish Quotations

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

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

Irish poets, learn your trade,Sing whatever is well made.

Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it.

To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.

Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.

And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.