Evil comes to us men of imagination wearing as its mask all the virtues. I have certainly known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.
~ William Butler Yeats

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Because the life man sees is not the final end of things, the moment we attain to greatness of any kind by personal labour and will we become fragmentary, and find no task in active life which can use our finest faculties.
~ William Butler Yeats

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I think that the movement of our thought has more and more so separated certain images and regions of the mind, and that these images grow in beauty as they grow in sterility.
~ William Butler Yeats

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We begin to live when we have conceived life as tragedy.
~ William Butler Yeats

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Think where man’s glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.
~ William Butler Yeats

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Seek out reality, leave things that seem.
~ William Butler Yeats

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Only the dead can be forgiven.
~ William Butler Yeats

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o give and not expect return, that is what lies at the heart of love.
~ William Butler Yeats

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Man is in love and loves what vanishes. What more is there to say?
~ William Butler Yeats

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Does the imagination dwell the most upon a woman won or woman lost?
~ William Butler Yeats

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