"Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“The Muse is mute when public menApplaud a modern throne.”

“Players and painted stage took all my love, And not those things that they were emblems of.”

“Why should the imagination of a manLong past his prime remember things that areEmblematical of love and war?”

“When someone becomes a millionaire, the least important thing is what they have. The most important thing is what they have become.”

“You will have to go through 15, 20, 50 years of civil wars and national struggles not only to bring about a change in society but also to change yourselves, and prepare yourselves for the exercise of political power.”

“The major value of reaching goals is not to acquire it, but it's the person you become while you're working to acquire it.”

“Nobody knows anything, but I, knowing nothing, am the smartest man in the world.”

“I like to go back and read poems that I wrote fifty years ago, twenty years ago, and sometimes they surprise me - I didn't know I knew that then. Or maybe I didn't know it then, and I know more now.”

“Who can wait quietly until the mud settles? Who can remain still until the moment of action?”