William Butler Yeats Quotes About Animals

Quotes about: Animals

• Consume my heart away, sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is, and gather me Into the artifice of eternity.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Animal, Sick

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 21 (1928)

• One often hears of a horse that shivers with terror, or of a dog that howls at something a mans eyes cannot see, and men who live primitive lives where instinct does the work of reason are fully conscious,of many things we cannot perceive at all. As life becomes more orderly, more deliberate, the supernatural world sinks farther away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Horse, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “The Cutting of an Agate”, p.9, BoD – Books on Demand

• Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fear, Animal, Men

  The Winding Stair (1929) "Death"

• We are fastened to a dying animal.

  William Butler Yeats

  Animal, Dying

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