William Butler Yeats

The world is a much more spiritual place than we imagine, and a much more material one too.

I have been so long in the study of the supernatural that I have come to believe in nothing else.

I was educated by the fairies.

I have certainly come to think that the dead are alive.

I have spent my life in trying to find a style for myself, and I am still trying.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

Sex and the dead are the two things that I am most interested in.

The only thing that has been of real use to me is the study of the occult.

I have been writing a book on spiritism for some years.

When we are dead, we are going to be much more alive than we are now.

I have been a good deal in the company of ghosts.

My mind is a cauldron of witches' brew.

I am a symbolist, and my symbols are the only things I know.

I believe in the transmigration of souls, and that the soul may pass from man to beast.

An argument with a poet is a conversation with a madman.

I have always considered myself a mystic.

The Irish race is the only race in the world that has been able to keep its sanity while believing in fairies.

I have been in love with a ghost for many years.

My whole life has been a preparation for some great spiritual event.

I think I am a little mad.