It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.'
W B Yeats quote I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera.
W B Yeats quote I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right.
W B Yeats quote I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
W B Yeats quote Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.
W B Yeats quote Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
W B Yeats quote Englishmen are babes in philosophy and so prefer faction-fighting to the labor of its unfamiliar thought.
W B Yeats quote Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.
W B Yeats quote Biography
Famous Irish poet, name pronounced Yates
