More quotes by W.B. Yeats

"To long a sacrifice can make a stone of a heart"
"Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while."
"Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry."
"People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind."
"What can be explained is not poetry."