William Butler Yeats
Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
Quotes
It's certain that fine women eat
A crazy salad with their meat.
A crazy salad with their meat.
In courtesy I'd have her chiefly learned;
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned.
If there's no hatred in a mind
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf
And many a poor man that has roved
Loved and thought himself beloved
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
Loved and thought himself beloved
From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.
For such,
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufflcient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
Being made beautiful overmuch,
Consider beauty a sufflcient end,
Lose natural kindness and maybe
The heart-revealing intimacy
That chooses right, and never find a friend.
All hatred driven hence,
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.
The soul recovers radical innocence
And learns at last that it is self-delighting,
Self-appeasing, self-affrighting,
And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will.
An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.
Have I not seen the loveliest woman born
Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn,
Because of her opinionated mind
Barter that horn and every good
By quiet natures understood
For an old bellows full of angry wind?
So let her think opinions are accursed.
Have I not seen the loveliest woman born
Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn,
Because of her opinionated mind
Barter that horn and every good
By quiet natures understood
For an old bellows full of angry wind?
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
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On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
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