William Butler Yeats Quotes

With destruction comes renovation.

From the end spring new beginnings.

The past is lying in flames. The future will rise from the flames within our hearts.

It is never too late to begin rebuilding, Though all into ruins your life seems hurled; For see! how the light of the New Year is gilding The wan, worn face of the bruised old world.

Think of a lifeless forest in which a small plant pushes its head upward, out of the ruin. In our grief process, we are moving into life from death, without denying the devastation that came before.

What's old collapses, times change, And new life blossoms in the ruins.

Our goal is not simply to reconstruct the Japan that existed before March 11, 2011, but to build a new Japan. We are determined to overcome this historic challenge.

Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.

Every day you must arise and say to your heart, I have suffered enough and now I must live because the light of the sun must not be wasted, it must not be lost without an eye to appreciate it.

Places that have experienced great defeat experience a kind of rebirth, which I think America has to do - unless we want to get more decrepit. I don't think we have to destroy the place totally.

9/11 occurs, and you're going to rebuild, and after awhile, the memory will be there, but there will be something new there, and different, and functioning, and electric.

The cool wind blew in my face and all at once I felt as if I had shed dullness from myself. Before me lay a long gray line with a black mark down the center. The birds were singing. It was spring.

Institutions may crumble and governments fall, but it is only that they may renew a better youth, and mount upwards like the eagle.

Renaissance always comes out of depression.

I really wanted to give people that tool, that thing, that answer, 'Well, what are you going to do after Katrina? How does New Orleans come back?' And I'm thinking to myself, New Orleans is back. We're the definition of 'back.' We're the definition of 'rebirth,' of 'renaissance.'

Sometimes you have to burn yourself to the ground before you can rise like a phoenix from the ashes.

Spring drew on... and a greenness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that hope traversed them at night and left each morning brighter traces of her steps.

What else remains for me? Youth, hope and love; To build a new life on a ruined life.

Germany has been born anew.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

Our passions are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.

I had seen these transformations, people who had lost their will to live, coming back from their zombie states and radiating a new life force from their eyes.

When we feel weak, all we have to do is wait a little while. The spring returns and the winter snows melt and fill us with new energy.