“If what I say resonates with you, it’s merely because we’re branches of the same tree.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).Ģ3. O when may it suffice?” ~ (William Butler Yeats). “Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart. “Everything in nature is resurrection.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).Ģ1. “Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).Ģ0. “The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ9. “We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ8. “When you are old and gray and full of sleep, and nodding by the fire, take down this book and slowly read, and dream of the soft look your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ7. “How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ6. Everything exists, everything is true, and the earth is only a little dust under our feet.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ5. “Let us go forth, the tellers of tales, and seize whatever prey the heart long for, and have no fear. “It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield.” ~ (William Butler Yeats). “There is another world, but it is in this one.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ3. “The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ2. “Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ1. “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ġ0. “Things fall apart the center cannot hold…” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ĩ. “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot but make it hot by striking.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).Ĩ. “Think where man’s glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ħ. “Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).Ħ. “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ĥ. “But I, being poor, have only my dreams I have spread my dreams under your feet Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).Ĥ. “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).ģ. ![]() “There are no strangers here Only friends you haven’t yet met.” ~ (William Butler Yeats).Ģ. Yeats (William Butler Yeats) was an Irish poet, dramatist, and prose writer.ġ. 'Tis the poethry that's disturbin' his head,' and leave him alone.W. Eventually they would decide not to run him in, saying, “'Shure, 'tisn't mad he is, nor yet drink taken. There were also those funny yet bizarre instances when the Dublin policemen would follow William suspiciously, wherever he went, not sure whether they should arrest the ‘mad’ man or not. 'Tis the poethry that's disturbin' his head,' and leave him alone.” “Willie”, as Yeats’ friends called him, wrote about himself, saying that he would often gesticulate animatedly, without any regard of the alarm that onlookers would face. This habit of his was talked-about not just within but also outside his circle of associates. This thoughtful literary titan would often walk about with arms swinging in the air, while he recited his own lines of poetry and contemplated on the next lines that he would pen. There were also those times, when this genius would start eating and keep devouring whatever food he saw, until an acquaintance present there checked him. ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’ creator always required someone else to remind him to have his meals. ![]() ![]() In fact, the poet would most often be immersed in his thoughts to such an extent that there were several occasions when this writer would forget to eat. In his circle of acquaintances, celebrated Irish poet, William Butler Yeats was known for his absent-mindedness and his tendency to brood upon his own literary creations.
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