William Butler Yeats — "I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is hard enough."

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

"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."

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

"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."

"The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time."