William Butler Yeats — "I have always considered myself a mystic."

"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere. The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction; w…"

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

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

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

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