"No art can conquer the people alone-the..." - Quote by William Butler Yeats

“Everything that man esteems Endures a moment or a day. Love's pleasure drives his love away, The painter's brush consumes his dreams.”

“Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet.”

“An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?”

“The difference between Talent and Genius is that Talent says things which he has never heard but once, and Genius things which he has never heard.”

“It's enough for you to do it once for a few men to remember you. But if you do it year after year, then many people remember you and they tell it to their children, and their children and grandchildren remember and, if it concerns books, they can read them. And if it's good enough, it will last as long as there are human beings.”

“What you want is practice, practice, practice. It doesn’t matter what we write (at least this is my view) at our age, so long as we write continually as well as we can. I feel that every time I write a page either of prose or of verse, with real effort, even if it’s thrown into the fire the next minute, I am so much further on.”

“Every man is wanted, and no man is wanted much.”

“No matter how you seem to fatten on a crime, there can never be good for the bee which is bad for the hive.”

“I have ever hated all nations, professions, and communities, and all my love is toward individuals.”