Quote

Being young you have not known The fool's triumph, nor yet Love lost as soon as won, Nor the best labourer dead And all the sheaves to bind.

William Butler Yeats

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

William Butler Yeats
Age: 73 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 13
Died: 1939
Died: January 28
Astrologer
Mystic
Playwright
Poet
Politician
Writer
Scrooby
Nottinghamshire
W. B. Yeats
William Yeats
W.B. Yeats
Dead
Sheaves
Known
Labourer
Lost
Labourers
Young
Bind
Best
Innocence
Love
Triumph
Life
Soon
Fool

More quotes by William Butler Yeats

Image
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.
William Butler Yeats
Image
In the great cities we see so little of the world, we drift into our minority. In the little towns and villages there are no minorities people are not numerous enough. You must see the world there, perforce. Every man is himself a class.
William Butler Yeats
Image
Test every work of intellect or faith and everything that your own hands have wrought.
William Butler Yeats
Image
What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?
William Butler Yeats
Image
And many a poor man that has roved Loved and thought himself beloved From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
William Butler Yeats
Image
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
William Butler Yeats
Image
No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.
William Butler Yeats
Image
My soul had found All happiness in its own cause or ground. Godhead on Godhead in sexual spasm begot Godhead. Some shadow fell. My soul forgot Those amorous cries that out of quiet come And must the common round of day resume.
William Butler Yeats
Image
somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
William Butler Yeats
Image
No man, even though he be Shakespeare, can write perfectly when his web is woven of threads that have been spun in many lands.
William Butler Yeats
Image
When I clamber to the heights of sleep, Or when I grow excited with wine, suddenly I meet your face.
William Butler Yeats
Image
And when you sigh from kiss to kiss I hear white Beauty sighing, too, For hours when all must fade like dew.
William Butler Yeats
Image
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
Image
It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.
William Butler Yeats
Image
Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.
William Butler Yeats
Image
If soul my look and body touch, Which is the more blest?
William Butler Yeats
Image
Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.
William Butler Yeats
Image
Everything in nature is resurrection.
William Butler Yeats
Image
The women that I picked spoke sweet and low And yet gave tongue. Hound voices were they all.
William Butler Yeats
Image
Grant me an old man's frenzy, Myself must I remake Till I am Timon and Lear Or that William Blake Who beat upon the wall Till Truth obeyed his call.
William Butler Yeats