Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
W B Yeats quote I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
W B Yeats quote Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.
W B Yeats quote And say my glory was I had such friends.
W B Yeats quote Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
W B Yeats quote A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught.
W B Yeats quote 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 quote Biography
Famous Irish poet, name pronounced Yates
