“Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or woman lost?”

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?”

“Were there no men of vision, all who are blind would be dead.”

“To eat bread without hope is still slowly to starve to death.”

“Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost.”

“Death, like generation, is a secret of Nature.”

“You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.”

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