William Butler Yeats
Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
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It's certain there is no fine thing
Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.
In the Seven Woods, 1904. Adam's Curse
I heard the old, old men say
'All that's beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.'
'All that's beautiful drifts away
Like the waters.'
In the Seven Woods, 1904. The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
And God stands winding His lonely horn,
And time and the world are ever in flight.
And time and the world are ever in flight.
The Wind Among the Reeds, 1899, Into the Twilight
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
Last Poems, 1936-1939, The Municipal Gallery Revisited
Think where man's glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.
And say my glory was I had such friends.
O heart! O heart! if she'd but turn her head
You'd know the folly of being comforted.
You'd know the folly of being comforted.
In the Seven Woods, 1904. The Folly of Being Comforted
Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.
And not those things that they were emblems of.
Last Poems,1936-1939, The Circus Animal's Desertion,
Locke sank into a swoon;
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.
The Garden died;
God took the spinning-jenny
Out of his side.
The Tower, 1928. Fragments
At midnight on the Emperor's pavement flit
Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit.
Flames that no faggot feeds, nor steel has lit.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. Byzantium
Why, what could she have done, being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910. No Second Troy
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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
Human, All Too Human
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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