William Butler Yeats Quotes

9 quotes from 8 authors

William Butler Yeats still haunts the imagination, even when only a handful of his lines appear. This tiny set of nine verses, voiced by eight contributors, hints at his blend of longing and mythic weight. To look further, the Poetry or Irish Literature sections offer a broader chorus of his voice.

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“Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before —William Butler Yeats”

Susan Kiernan-Lewis

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“The poet William Butler Yeats said, “We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it.”

Dawson Church

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When I was starting to write, the great influence was T.S. Eliot and after that William Butler Yeats.

Howard Nemerov

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William Butler Yeats Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I…

William Butler Yeats

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“We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather around us, that they may see their own images, and…

Jack Kornfield

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“O DO NOT LOVE TOO LONG by: William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) WEETHEART, do not love too long: I loved long and long,…

W.B. Yeats

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It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless. (William Butler…

William Butler Yeats

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“Although I’d initially underrated its value, the true significance of the fourth element—the atmosphere of growth—had become clearer to me over time.…

Gretchen Rubin

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“William Butler Yeats’s “Second Coming” seems perfectly to render our present predicament: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are…

Slavoj Žižek

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