William Butler Yeats Quotes

Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

Few people know so clearly what they want. Most people can't even think what to hope for when they throw a penny in a fountain.

All of us write wish fulfillment.

I keep my wishes and dreams secret, like a child.

Like all people who have nothing, I lived on dreams.

Whatever dreams I have wished have come true.

If wishes were horses, beggars could ride.

I've tired of looking into the future, imagining all the things I want to have.

Oh, must we dream our dreams and have them, too?

Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.

Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

There's a difference between expectations and aspirations.

Every time somebody speaks of my honesty, there is someone who quivers inside me.

I'm feeling a little delicate.

He put in your heart certain wishes and plans; in my heart, he put other different desires.

Our visions begin with our desires.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

I realise how precious life is, probably because I've seen how it can be taken away.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Simply, there are many things I would like to do.

What one hopes for is always better than what one has.

Everybody has their own desires.

I would say that my music is surreal, it's inspired by dreams, and it's inspired by heartbreak.

If I've learned anything, it's that you can't take anything for granted.