William Butler Yeats Quotes about Wisdom

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If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

William Butler Yeats

Wise, Wisdom, Suffering

And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey.

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Butterfly, Optimism

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Philosophy, People

"Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power, Like everything that has the stain of blood, A property of the living; but no stain Can come upon the visage of the moon When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

William Butler Yeats

Life, Wisdom, Moon

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Ignorant, Youth

William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.140

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Art, Fate

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

Those men that in their writings are most wise Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

William Butler Yeats

Wise, Wisdom, Writing

William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Oil, Dancing

"Among School Children" l. 57 (1928) See Quarles 1

Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Song, Art

William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.206, Simon and Schuster