“It is not true that youth looks before it with the mechanical gaze of a well-drilled soldier. Its quarrel is not with the past but with the present, where its elders are so obviously powerful and no cause seems lost if it seem to threaten that power.” — William Butler Yeats, The Trembling of the Veil
“When I think of all the books I have read, and of the wise words I have heard spoken, and of the anxiety I have given to parents and grandparents, and of the hopes that I have had, all life weighed in the scales of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.” — William Butler Yeats, Reveries over Childhood and Youth
“I had as many ideas as I have now, only I did not know how to choose from among them those that belonged to my life.” — William Butler Yeats, Reveries over Childhood and Youth
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