William Butler Yeats Quotes about Youth

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

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

I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

William Butler Yeats

Phoenix, Youth

'His Phoenix'

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

William Butler Yeats

Brilliant, Youth, Bitter

William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.253, Simon and Schuster