William Butler Yeats
Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
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A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.
The Tower, 1928. Leda and the Swan
Land of Heart's Desire
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.
The Land of Heart's Desire, 1894
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.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer, 1921. A Prayer for My Daughter
Now that my ladder's gone,
I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
I must lie down where all the ladders start,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
Last Poems,1936-1939, The Circus Animal's Desertion
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.
And yet again, if it be life to pitch
Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. A Dialogue of Self and Soul
Hands, do what you're bid:
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.
Bring the balloon of the mind
That bellies and drags in the wind
Into its narrow shed.
The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. The Balloon of the Mind
All the wild witches, those most noble ladies,
For all their broomsticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.
For all their broomsticks and their tears,
Their angry tears, are gone.
The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. Lines Written in Dejection
Wine comes in at the mouth
And love comes in at the eye
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
And love comes in at the eye
That's all we shall know for truth
Before we grow old and die.
The Green Helmet and Other Poems, 1910. A Drinking Song
Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.
The Tower, 1928. Youth and Age
I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead.
The Letters of W. B. Yeats
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
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."
Essays
Essays