William Butler Yeats quotes that defiantly enrich your heart to enjoying your life again.
William Butler Yeats was a famous Irish poet , essay writer and one of the central poets of the twentieth century. He was an important dramatist and a writer of very eloquent prose. He was a Senator of the Irish Free State and Chairman of the Coinage Commission. In all of this activity, Yeats was a champion of Irish nationalism. His verse is vey famous even in 21st century.
William Butler Yeats books and poetry download in pdf { Here is link of all books of William Butler Yeats }
1.The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats: click here to download
2. Rosa Alchemica: click here to download
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| 4. The thought of W.B. Yeats : click here to download 5. Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats, Volume III : click here to download |
William Butler Yeats best Inspirational Quotes
1. One had a lovely face, and two or three had charm, but charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass cannot keep the form where the mountain hare has lain. -W. B. Yeats
2. When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep. -W. B. Yeats
3. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. -W. B. Yeats
4. Joy is of the will which labour, which overcomes obstacles, which knows triumph. -W. B. Yeats
5. But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams. -W. B. Yeats
6. Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill. -W. B. Yeats
7. Land of Heart's Desire, Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song. -W. B. Yeats
8. The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity. -W. B. Yeats
9. Turning and turning in the widening gyre, The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world... -W. B. Yeats
10. Cast your mind on other days that we in coming days may be still the indomitable Irishriy. -W. B. Yeats
11. The fascination of what's difficult Has dried the sap out of my veins, and rent Spontaneous joy and natural content Out of my heart. -W. B. Yeats
12. Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. -W. B. Yeats
13. Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. -W. B. Yeats
14. I at midnight by the clock may creep into your bed. -W. B. Yeats
15. when sleepers wake and yet still dream. -W. B. Yeats
16. All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. -W. B. Yeats
17. Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. -W. B. Yeats
18. In dreams begin responsibility. -W. B. Yeats
19. No marble, no conventional phrase; On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by! -W. B. Yeats
20. Poor men have grown to be rich men, And rich men grown to be poor again, And I am running to Paradise. -W. B. Yeats
21. Education is not the filling of a pail, but rather the lighting of a fire. -W. B. Yeats
22. Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? -W. B. Yeats
23. The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone. -W. B. Yeats
24. I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right. -W. B. Yeats
25. The hour of the waning of love has beset us, And weary and worn are our sad souls now; Let us part, ere the season of passion forget us, With a kiss and a tear on thy drooping brow. -W. B. Yeats
26. Our words must seem to be inevitable. -W. B. Yeats
27. An aged man is but a paltry thing, A tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clasp its hands and sing, and louder sing For every tatter in its mortal dress. -W. B. Yeats
28. Life is a long preparation for something that never happens. -W. B. Yeats
29. Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. -W. B. Yeats
30. Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now. -W. B. Yeats
31. Growing up all out of shape from toe to top. -W. B. Yeats
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