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Your Quotes for 13 June 2005 - W. B. Yeats

The Irish poet and dramatist William Butler Yeats was born at Dublin, Ireland on this day in 1865. He published his first poem by age 20, was fascinated by the occult, researched Irish folk tales and other elements of Celtic myth and fable, and won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth. We are happy when we are growing.

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.

The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And God, the herdsman goads them on behind,
And I am broken by their passing feet.
     - All from William Butler Yeats, 1865 - 1939

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