Quotes by Yeats, William Butler

A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. >>

Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed >>

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but s >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

For your born writer, nothing is so healing as the realization that he >>

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to >>

Writers, you know, are the beggars of Western society. >>

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

Yeats, William Butler