William Butler Yeats Quotes

I was telling the truth. I feel like we got that point across.

If you are writing the clearest, truest words you can find and doing the best you can to understand and communicate, this will shine on paper like its own little lighthouse. Lighthouses dont go running all over an island looking for boats to save; they just stand there shining.

Eloquence is the power to translate a truth into language perfectly intelligible to the person to whom you speak.

No matter how true I believe what I am writing to be, if the reader cannot also participate in that truth, then I have failed.

But the power of destiny is something awesome; neither wealth, nor Ares, nor a tower, nor dark-hulled ships might escape it.

The most powerful political moments for me come when I feel like my actions are aligned with a certain truth. I can feel it. When I'm talking to a group and I'm saying something truthful, I can feel a power that comes out of those statements that is different than when I'm just being glib or clever.

I think honesty is an important thing when writing a song. If you can't sing it with conviction, then no-one else is going to believe it.

Don't write slogans, write truths.

There is a Destiny which has the control of our actions, not to be resisted by the strongest efforts of Human Nature.

Fate and necessity are unconquerable.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Maybe the hardest thing in writing is simply to tell the truth about things as we see them.

I write as straight as I can, just as I walk as straight as I can, because that is the best way to get there.

I'm trying to speak--to write-the truth. I"m trying to be clear. I'm not interested in being fancy, or even original. Clarity and truth will be plenty, if I can only achieve them.

What can we writers learn from lizards, lift from birds? In quickness is truth. The faster you blurt, the more swiftly you write, the more honest you are. In hesitation is thought. In delay comes the effort for a style, instead of leaping upon truth which is the only style worth deadfalling or tiger-trapping.

The difficulty is not to write, but to write what you mean.

...sensation of rightness, of saying the right thing atthe right time to the right person, that too-raresensation of having the right thing to say and believing it.

In the future, when something comes up, you tell exactly how it happened but write down for yourself the way you think it should have happened. Tell the truth and write the story. Then you won't get mixed up. It was the best advice Francie every got.

Necessity is harsh. Fate has no reprieve.

Read critically, write consciously; speak clearly; tell your truth!

You're going to write straight and simple and good now. That's the start.''What if I'm not straight and simple and good? Do you think I can write that way?''Write how you are but make it straight.

One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up.

Honesty is one part of eloquence. We persuade others by being in earnest ourselves.

Say what you mean. Say what you see. Make a photograph, if you can, for the reader.

there's no chance at all: we are all trapped by a singular fate.