William Butler Quotes
A mouth that has no moisture and no breath Breathless mouths may summon; I hail the superhuman; I call it death-in-life and life-in-death.
O would, beloved, that you lay Under the dock-leaves in the ground, While lights were paling one by one.
Style personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers.
The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life or of the work.
Wine comes in at the mouth and love comes in at the eye that's all we shall know for truth before we grow old and die.
Only that which does not teach which does not cry out which does not condescend which does not explain is irresistible.
It is unseasonable and unwholesome in all months that have not an R in their names to eat an oyster.
Of our conflicts with others we make rhetoric of our conflicts with ourselves we make poetry.
A statesman is an easy man He tells his lies by rote A journalist makes up his lies And takes you by the throat So stay at home and drink your beer And let the neighbours vote.
Florence Farr once said to me "If we could say to ourselves with sincerity 'this passing moment is as good as any I shall ever know ' we could die upon the instant and be united with God."
She bid me take love easy as the leaves grow on the tree But I being young and foolish with her would not agree.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die.
