#de

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame! ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dance #dull #fairies #flame #i

When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#deep #down #dream #eyes #fire

Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#child #come #fairy #full #hand

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#asleep #books #conversation #dead #design

I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#comfort #desire #destroyed #drink #i

I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith. ↗

— Rowan Williams

#christian faith #deal #faith #great #great deal

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#dead #i #i am #interest #least

I balanced all, brought all to mind, the years to come seemed waste of breath, a waste of breath the years behind, in balance with this life, this death. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#balanced #behind #breath #brought #come

We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#everything #happy #inside #outside #something

I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember, the place is so beautiful. One almost expects the people to sing instead of speaking. It is all like an opera. ↗

— William Butler Yeats

#anybody #anything #beautiful #does #dream