William Butler Yeats Quotes about Age

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I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

I had a chair at every hearth, When no one turned to see, With 'Look at that old fellow there, 'And who may he be?

William Butler Yeats

Age, May, Looks

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.136, Penguin

Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

William Butler Yeats

Religious, Art, Age

William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

The hare grows old as she plays in the sun And gazes around her with eyes of brightness; Before the swift things that she dreamed of were done She limps along in an aged whiteness.

William Butler Yeats

Eye, Play, Age

William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.40, Penguin

Because this age and the next age Engender in the ditch, No man can know a happy man From any passing wretch, If Folly link with Elegance No man knows which is which.

William Butler Yeats

Happiness, Men, Age

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.324, Simon and Schuster

An age is the reversal of an age: When strangers murdered Emmet, Fitzgerald, Tone, We lived like men that watch a painted stage. What matter for the scene, the scene once gone: It had not touched our lives.

William Butler Yeats

Men, What Matters, Age

William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.703, Simon and Schuster