William Butler Yeats — "My life has been a continual struggle with the supernatural."

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

"The soul is a living being, and it never dies."

"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."

"Civilisation is hooped together, brought. Under a rule, under the semblance of peace. By manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, And he, despite his terror, cannot cease, Ravening through centur…"

"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."