William Butler Yeats Quotes about Soul

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All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions.

William Butler Yeats

Soul, Opinion, Empty

The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.

William Butler Yeats

Sex, Soul, Tragedy

William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.398, Simon and Schuster

The soul of man is of the imperishable substance of the stars!

William Butler Yeats

Stars, Men, Soul

William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.228, Simon and Schuster

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

William Butler Yeats

Adversity, Temptation, Soul

When all is said and done, how do we know but that our own unreason may be better than another's truth? for it has been warmed on our hearths and in our souls, and is ready for the wild bees of truth to hive in it, and make their sweet honey.

William Butler Yeats

Sweet, Soul, Done

William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.8, Library of Alexandria

There is only one romance the Soul's.

William Butler Yeats

Inspirational, Romance, Soul

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

If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?

William Butler Yeats

Soul, Looks, Body

William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.155

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

William Butler Yeats

Memories, Soul, Mind

William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul

William Butler Yeats

Life, Men, Soul

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.428, Hayes Barton Press

I gave what other women gave That stepped out of their clothes But when this soul, its body off Naked to naked goes, He it has found shall find therein What none other knows.

William Butler Yeats

Clothes, Soul, Naked

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.235, Wordsworth Editions

This melancholy London - I sometimes imagine that the souls of the lost are compelled to walk through its streets perpetually. One feels them passing like a whiff of air.

William Butler Yeats

Air, Soul, London

William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran (1969). “John Sherman & Dhoya”