William Butler Yeats Quotes

Extremes in nature equal ends produce; In man they join to some mysterious use.

The combination of domesticity and wildness - that's a deep expression.

How is it possible to live like a machine and bear fruit like a tree?

And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain.

There is ebb and flow. Leaving and coming. Flight and fall. Sing and silent. Reaching and reached.

The bee and the serpent often sip from the selfsame flower.

We need society, and we need solitude also, as we need summer and winter, day and night, exercise and rest.

Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.

Everything I do is a reflection of the duality within me. Musically, I really love things that are very synthetic and unnatural. And I also like the organic and human... the intrinsic, I guess.

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

In me the tiger sniffs the rose.

The rose and the thorn, and sorrow and gladness are linked together.

If you love large, you've got to hurt large. If you've got a lot of light, you've probably got an equal amount of darkness.

Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them.

There is nothing in nature wherein there is not good and evil; everything moveth and liveth in this double impulse, working or operation, be it what it will.

The planet is always half light and half dark, and so are we.

So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.

Duality is not a story. Duality is just a complexity.

Life is a mixing of all kind of things: comedy and tragedy going together.

The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

So what is discord at one level of your being is harmony at another level.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

Everybody's got that split between the beautiful and fragile, the hard and the dark.

I really like blending two things together that are polar opposites. Because I feel like, in a large aspect, that's kinda like what I am.