O but we dreamed to mend Whatever mischief seemed To afflict mankind, but now That winds of winter blow Learn that we were crack-pated when we dreamed.
William Butler YeatsLet us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.
William Butler YeatsWe make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
William Butler YeatsI think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
William Butler Yeats