William Butler Yeats — "I have always been drawn to the darkness."

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

"The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet."

"I have seen the invisible world, and it is more real than the visible."

"No man who deserts his own literature for another's can hope for the highest rank. The cradles of the greatest writers are rocked among the scenes they are to celebrate. Wherever an Irish writer has s…"

"The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart."