Brendan Dowd

“When one gets quiet, then something wakes up inside one, something happy and quiet like the stars.”
― William Butler Yeats

“One loses, as one grows older, something of the lightness of one's dreams; one begins to take life up in both hands, and to care more for the fruit than the flower, and that is no great loss perhaps.”
― W.B. Yeats, The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore

“We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.”
― Yeats, William Butler

“By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.”
― William Butler Yeats