W.B. Yeats

We must not be afraid to fail, for it is through failure that we learn.

I have always been a man who has sought to understand the mysteries of life.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

I have always believed that the poet is a man who has to speak for his people.

We must not be afraid to dream big dreams, for it is through dreams that we achieve greatness.

I have always been a man who has sought to create beauty in the world.

The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

I have always believed that the artist is a man who has to see the world with new eyes.

We must not be afraid to challenge the status quo, for it is through challenge that we grow.

I have always been a man who has sought to inspire others.

We are, I think, the only people in the world who can be described as a nation of two-headed men, for we have a head in the past and a head in the future.

I have been in the midst of a great deal of intellectual excitement and have done nothing but talk.

I have spent my life in trying to persuade people that there are spirits, and I have found it easier to persuade them that there are no spirits.

I have always been a man of many ideas, but few convictions.

Poetry is the most beautiful way of saying nothing.

The Irish are a people who will never be united until they are all dead.

I am a man of many moods, and all of them bad.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

There are no strangers here; only friends you haven't yet met.

I have been a man of letters, and I have found that letters are very difficult to write.