William Butler Yeats Quotes - Page 2
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions
William Butler Yeats (2013). “Stories of Red Hanrahan: With the Secret Rose and Rosa Alchemica”, p.81, Courier Corporation
1936 'An Acre of Grass', stanza 3. Collected in New Poems (1938).
"The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)
Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.
William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.215
The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"
"Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)
And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.
William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.48, Penguin
One man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
'When You Are Old'
William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.77, Simon and Schuster
"The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)
Wine enters through the mouth, Love, the eyes. I raise the glass to my mouth, I look at you, I sigh.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.25, Wordsworth Editions
William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.5, Simon and Schuster
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.398, Simon and Schuster
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
"Anima Hominis" (1924)
Everything that's lovely is But a brief, dreamy kind of delight.
William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.63, Wordsworth Editions
