“Emotion, on the other hand, grows intoxicating and delightful after it has been enriched with the memory of old emotions, with all the uncounted flavours of old experience.”

Describing cultivated emotion as something deepened by memory and accumulated human experience · Essay, The Subject Matter of Drama

• Emotion
• Experience
• Memory

“This great mind and great memory can be evoked by symbols.”

Summarising the central importance of symbolism to Yeats's imaginative and occult thought · Essay, Magic, in Ideas of Good and Evil

• Memory
• Mind
• Symbolism

“The borders of our memories are as shifting, and our memories are a part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.”

Imagining individual memory as participating in a larger collective memory · Essay, Magic, in Ideas of Good and Evil

• Memory
• Mystery
• Nature

“A poet's life is an experiment in living, and those who come after him have a right to all the facts.”

defending frank biographical honesty as owed to future readers · Autobiographies (prefatory note)

• Memory
• Truth