William Butler Yeats Quotes
William Butler Yeats Quotes. Below is a collection of famous William Butler Yeats quotes. Here you can find the most popular and greatest quotes by William Butler Yeats. Share these quotations with your friends and family.
I say that Roger Casement Did what he had to do, He died upon the gallows But that is nothing new.
By William Butler Yeats
I had not given a penny for a song Did not the poet sing it with such airs...
By William Butler Yeats
I am content to live it all again, And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
By William Butler Yeats
I balanced all, brought all to mind, The years to come seemed waste of breath,...
By William Butler Yeats
I can exchange opinion with any neighbouring mind, I have as healthy flesh and blood as any rhymer's had,...
By William Butler Yeats
I dreamed that one had died in a strange place Near no accustomed hand; And they had nailed the boards above her face....
By William Butler Yeats
How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on Spanish politics?
By William Butler Yeats
Great works constructed there in nature's spite For scholars and for poets after us,...
By William Butler Yeats
For wisdom is the property of the dead, A something incompatible with life; and power,...
By William Butler Yeats
Give her a little grace, What if a laughing eye Have looked into your face? It is about to die.
By William Butler Yeats
Give to these children, new from the world, Rest far from men. Is anything better, anything better? Tell us it then....
By William Butler Yeats
Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose, Enfold me in my hour of hours; where those...
By William Butler Yeats
For men were born to pray and save: Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave.
By William Butler Yeats
For those that love the world serve it in action, Grow rich, popular and full of influence,...
By William Butler Yeats
From man's blood-sodden heart are sprung Those branches of the night and day...
By William Butler Yeats
Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span; Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;...
By William Butler Yeats
Death and life were not Till man made up the whole, Made lock, stock and barrel Out of his bitter soul,
By William Butler Yeats
Come, heart, where hill is heaped upon hill: For there the mystical brotherhood...
By William Butler Yeats
But if when anyone died Came keeners hoarser than rooks, He bade them give over their keening; For he was a man of books.
By William Butler Yeats