“In dreams begin responsibilities.”

— William Butler Yeats, Epigraph to Responsibilities (1914)

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.”

“Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?”

“Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.”

“The center of every man's existence is a dream.”

“In proportion to power is responsibility.”

“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”

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

“Myths are made for the imagination to breathe life into them.”