William Butler Yeats Quotes about Happiness

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Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is

William Butler Yeats

Happiness, Believe, Years

William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.105, Simon and Schuster

My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.

William Butler Yeats

Happiness, Sex, Soul

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

William Butler Yeats

Happiness, Men, Age

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.324, Simon and Schuster