“Round these men stories tended to group themselves, sometimes deserting more ancient heroes for the purpose. Round poets have they gathered especially,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: *Him who trembles before the flame… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“I went out to the hazel wood because a fire was in my head cut and peeled a hazel wand and hooked… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Yet surely there are men who have made their art Out of no tragic war, lovers of life, Impulsive men that look… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“ The Scholars "Bald heads forgetful of their sins, Old, learned, respectable bald heads Edit and annotate the lines That young men,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“ Ephemera Your eyes that once were never weary of mine Are bowed in sorrow under pendulous lids, Because our love is… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“HIS chosen comrades thought at school He must grow a famous man; He thought the same and lived by rule, All his… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“...He bade his heart go to her, When the owls called out no more; In a red and quivering garment It sang… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“My anthology continues to sell & the critics get more & more angry. When I excluded Wilfred Owen, whom I consider unworthy… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“The jester walked in the garden: The garden had fallen still; He bade his soul rise upward And stand on her window-sill.… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“The host is rushing 'twixt day and night, And where is there hope or deed as fair? Caoilte tossing his burning hair, And Niamh… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“For the good are always the merry, Save by an evil chance, And the merry love the fiddle, And the merry love to dance.” — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“I spit upon the dancers painted by Degas. I spit upon their short bodies, their stiff stays, their toes whereupon they spin like peg-tops,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“I had fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him speaking as at a distance. 'And yet there is no one… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Be you still, be you still, trembling heart; Remember the wisdom out of the old days: *Him who trembles before the flame and the… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“The Nineteenth Century And After Though the great song return no more There's keen delight in what we have: The rattle of pebbles on… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident? And are there not moods which need heaven, hell,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Its quarrel is not with the past, but with the present, where its elders are so obviously powerful, and no cause seems lost if… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“On November Eve they are at their gloomiest, for according to the old Gaelic reckoning, this is the first night of winter. This night… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“... Those masterful images because complete Grew in pure mind, but out of what began? A mound of refuse or the sweepings of a… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“The portraits, of more historical than artistic interest, had gone; and tapestry, full of the blue and bronze of peacocks, fell over the doors,… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
