William Butler Yeats

I believe in all dreams, and in all visions, and in all prophecies.

The world is a spiritual battleground.

I have always been a seeker after hidden knowledge.

The soul is a mirror of the universe.

I have been touched by the hand of God, or of some other power.

My life has been a continual struggle with the supernatural.

I have seen the future, and it is terrible.

I am a creature of instinct and intuition.

The world is a dream, and we are the dreamers.

I have always been drawn to the darkness.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Republics, Kingdoms, Soviets, Corporate States, Parliaments, are trash. [...] These men, whether six or six thousand, are the core of Ireland, are Ireland itself.

In a battle like Ireland's, which is one of poverty against wealth, we must prove our sincerity by making ourselves unpopular to wealth. We must accept the baptism of the gutter.

No art can conquer the people alone-the people are conquered by an ideal of life upheld by authority.

How can the arts overcome the slow dying of men's hearts that we call progress?

The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

My own position is that an idealism or spiritualism which denies magic, and evil spirits even, and sneers at magicians and even mediums (the few honest ones) is an academical imposture.

Your Church has in this matter been far more thorough than the Protestant. It has never denied Ars Magica, though it has denounced it'.

To me all things are made of the conflict of two states of consciousness, beings or persons which die each other's life live each other's death.

Christ was still the half-brother of Dionysius.