William Butler Yeats “Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.” William Butler Yeats View all quotes by William Butler Yeats →
“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.” William Butler Yeats
“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.” William Butler Yeats
