William Butler Yeats Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• 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

• We are happy when for everything inside us there is a corresponding something outside us.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

• I thought of rhyme alone,
  For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
  And make the daylight sweet once more.

  William Butler Yeats

  Happiness, Sweet, Poetry

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.142, 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

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