“For everything that's lovely is but a brief, dreamy, kind of delight.”

— William Butler Yeats, In the Seven Woods, 1904; "Never Give All the Heart"

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?”

“Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.”

“Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?”

“The wise find pleasure in water; the virtuous find pleasure in hills.”

“That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.”

“Therefore the wise man is always happy.”

“No one can be happy without virtue.”