William Butler Yeats Quotes About Beauty

Quotes about: Beauty

• I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.80, Simon and Schuster

• For such,
  Being made beautiful overmuch,
  Consider beauty a sufficient end,
  Lose natural kindness and maybe
  The heart-revealing intimacy
  That chooses right, and never find a friend.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Kindness

  William Butler Yeats, “A Prayer For My Daughter”

• And when you sigh from kiss to kiss
  I hear white Beauty sighing, too,
  For hours when all must fade like dew.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Kissing, White

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.50, Wordsworth Editions

• But bear in mind your lover's wage
  Is what your looking-glass can show,
  And that he will turn green with rage
  At all that is not pictured there.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Jealousy, Glasses

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.82

• Some moralist or mythological poet
  Compares the solitary soul to a swan;
  I am satisfied with that,
  Satisfied if a troubled mirror show it,
  Before that brief gleam of its life be gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Swans, Mirrors

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.177, Wordsworth Editions

• All dreams of the soul
  End in a beautiful man's or woman's body.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Beautiful, Dream

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.76

• Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

• And God would bid His warfare cease,
  Saying all things were well;
  And softly make a rosy peace,
  A peace of Heaven with Hell.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, God, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for only when we have seen and foreseen what we dread shall we be rewarded by that dazzling unforeseen wing-footed wanderer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Wings, Dread

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Mythologies”, p.332, Simon and Schuster

• If Michael, leader of God's host
  When Heaven and Hell are met,
  Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
  He would his deeds forget.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Doors, Leader

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.18

• Tis the eternal law,
  That first in beauty should be first in might.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Law, Might

• Who dreamed that beauty passes like a dream?
  For these red lips, with all their mournful pride,
  Mournful that no new wonder may betide,
  Troy passed away in one high funeral gleam,
  And Usna's children died.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.28, Wordsworth Editions

• O cloud-pale eyelids, dream-dimmed eyes,
  The poets labouring all their days
  To build a perfect beauty in rhyme
  Are overthrown by a woman's gaze.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.54, Wordsworth Editions

• Because of something told under the famished horn
  Of the hunter's moon, that hung between the night and the day,
  To dream of women whose beauty was folded in dismay,
  Even in an old story, is a burden not to be borne.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Dream, Women

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.33, Library of Alexandria

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