"It is not permitted to a man,..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.”

“Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.”

“Though I have many words,What woman's satisfied,I am no longer faintBecause at her side?O who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?”

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”

“Life doesn't imitate art...it is art!”

“The beautiful is a phenomenon which is never apparent of itself, but is reflected in a thousand different works of the creator.”

“I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.”

“An author, like any other so-called artist, is a man in whom the normal vanity of all men is so vastly exaggerated that he finds it a sheer impossibility to hold it in. His over-powering impulse is to gyrate before his fellow men, flapping his wings and emitting defiant yells. This being forbidden by the police of all civilized nations, he takes it out by putting his yells on paper. Such is the thing called self-expression.”

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”