William Butler Yeats Quotes

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

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

Men speak of dreaming as if it were a phenomenon of night and sleep. They should know better. All results achieved by us are self-promised, and all self-promises are made in dreams awake. Dreaming is the relief of labor,the wine that sustains us in act. We learn to love labor, not for itself, but for the opportunity it furnishes for dreaming, which is the great under-monotone of real life, unheard, unnoticed, because of its constancy. Living is dreaming. Only in the graves are there no dreams.

I dream. Sometimes I think that's the only right thing to do.

Dreaming, dreaming, dreaming -- weren't our dreams what gave us strength, hope, and desire?

I am just a dreamer, but you are just a dream

Where there is life there is wishful thinking.

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

You may say i'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one

We have our dreams because without them we could not bear the truth.

It had been more of a wish, actually, but it sounded better to call it a dream.

I used to build dreams about you.

Magic is what we invent when we want something we think we cant have.

My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

A lie to me is a dream that might come true.

Believing you're something that you're not excites the mind and the imagination. And it's hopeful.

Someday' talks about a dream of mine.

If you desire something, you don't have it. It is more interesting than enjoyment, because enjoyment erases the mysteries and the vision of desire. Desire opens up possibilities but never achieves anything, whereas enjoyment is just the brutal achievement of something - and after that, it's done.

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.

Desire is not what you see, but what you imagine.

Throwing a line out to sea To see if I can catch a dream

A dream of life comes to me, like a catfish dancing on the end of the line.

I dream of vague shapes that hint of my heart's desire.

You may tire of reality but you never tire of dreams.