William Butler Yeats Quotes about Passion

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... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

... What matter, so there is but fire In you, in me?

William Butler Yeats

Passion, Fire, What Matters

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.77, Wordsworth Editions

It is not permitted to a man, who takes up pen or chisel, to seek originality, for passion is his only business, and he cannot but mould or sing after a new fashion because no disaster is like another.

William Butler Yeats

Fashion, Passion, Men

William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.339, Simon and Schuster

Why should I seek for love or study it? It is of God and passes human wit; I study hatred with great diligence, For that's a passion in my own control, A sort of besom that can clear the soul Of everything that is not mind or sense.

William Butler Yeats

Hate, Passion, Hatred

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.245, Wordsworth Editions

When an immortal passion breathes in mortal clay; Our hearts endure the scourge, the plaited thorns, the way Crowded with bitter faces, the wounds in palm and side, The vinegar-heavy sponge, the flowers by Kedron stream.

William Butler Yeats

Jesus, Flower, Passion

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.68, Simon and Schuster

A passion-driven exultant man sings out Sentences that he has never thought.

William Butler Yeats

Passion, Men, Driven

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.247, Wordsworth Editions

But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love Of solitary beds, knew what they were, That passion could bring character enough And pressed at midnighht in some public place Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

William Butler Yeats

Girl, Passion, Character

'The Statues'

How could passion run so deep Had I never thought That the crime of being born Blackens all our lot?

William Butler Yeats

Running, Passion, Sin

William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.524, Hayes Barton Press

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

William Butler Yeats

Christian, Passion, Writing

William Butler Yeats (1955). “Letters”