William Butler Yeats

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dance #dull #fairies #flame #i

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dreams #softly #tread #you

Once you attempt legislation upon religious grounds, you open the way for every kind of intolerance and religious persecution. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#every #grounds #intolerance #kind #legislation

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#child #come #fairy #full #hand

In dreams begins responsibility. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#begins #responsibility

Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#iron #make #strike #striking #till

I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.' ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#beautiful #drifts #heard #i #like

Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#long #make #may #sacrifice #stone

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#come #fanatic #great #hatred #heart

Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#comes #die #eye #grow #know