“Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!”

— William Butler Yeats, Last Poems, 1936-1939; "Under Ben Bulben"

About William Butler Yeats

1865 – 1939

Irish poet and Nobel laureate in Literature (1923).

“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless soul clap its hands and sing.”

“In dreams begin responsibilities.”

“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?”

“No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle.”

“A living dog is better than a dead lion.”

“The life of the dead is in the memory of the living.”

“A useless life is an early death.”

“The earth belongs to the living, not to the dead.”

“Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.”