William Butler Yeats - Mind Quotes

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My Soul. Such fullness in that quarter overflows
And falls into the basin of the mind
That man is stricken deaf and dumb and blind,
For intellect no longer knows
Is from the Ought, or knower from the Known —
That is to say, ascends to Heaven;
Only the dead can be forgiven;
But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

William Butler Yeats

Cast your mind on other days
That we in coming days may be
Still the indomitable Irishry.

William Butler Yeats

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream
His mind moves upon silence.

William Butler Yeats

Come let us mock at the great
That had such burdens on the mind
And toiled so hard and late
To leave some monument behind,
Nor thought of the levelling wind.

William Butler Yeats