"What made us dream that he could..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“How could passion run so deepHad I never thoughtThat the crime of being bornBlackens all our lot?”

“Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.”

“The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.”

“In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.”

“Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.”

“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it.”

“Our lives are shaped not as much by our experiences as by our expectations.”

“Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.”

“Never expect people to treat you any better than you treat yourself.”