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William Butler Yeats Quotes

«You think it horrible that lust and rageShould dance attendance upon my old age;They were not such a plague when I was young;What else have I to spur me into song?»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: attendance, in attendance, lust, plague, spur
«I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: bladder, bladders, dried, pea, peas
«The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . .»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: centre, mystical
«Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: ambassadors, coinage, connection, described, designs, postage, postage stamp, postage stamps, stamps, The Ambassadors
«he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.'»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: abided, abide by, Abide With Me, abiding, periods, sustained, temporary, tragedy
«Half close your eyelids, loosen your hair,And dream about the great and their pride;They have spoken against you everywhere,But weigh this song with the great and their pride;I made it out of a mouthful of air,Their children's children shall say they have lied.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: eyelid, eyelids, I made it, lied, loosen, loosened, loosening, loosens, mouthful, mouthfuls, weigh
«May she be granted beauty and yet notBeauty to make a stranger's eye distraught,Or hers before a looking-glass, for such,Being made beautiful overmuch,Consider beauty a sufficient end,Lose natural kindness and maybeThe heart-revealing intimacyThat chooses right, and never find a friend.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: chooses, distraught, glass eye, Hers, intimacy, looking glass, overmuch
«Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: decay, decayed, decaying, decays, ebb, ebbed, ebbing, ebbs, endless, flood, flooded, flooding, flood in, song
«Others because you did not keepThat deep-sworn vow have been friends of mine;Yet always when I look death in the face,When I clamber to the heights of sleep,Or when I grow excited with wine,Suddenly I meet your face.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: clamber, clambers, excited, Friends of, heights, sworn, vow
«The last stroke of midnight dies.All day in the one chairFrom dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have rangedIn rambling talk with an image of air:Vague memories, nothing but memories.»
Author: William Butler Yeats (Dramatist, Poet, Writer) | Keywords: chair, midnight, ramble, ramble on, rambling, ranged, rhyme, rhymed, rhyming, stroke, vague
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