William Butler Yeats Quotes About Birth

Quotes about: Birth

• As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Uplifting, Dream, Spiritual

  William Butler Yeats, Ulick O'Connor (1990). “The Yeats companion”, Pavilion Books

• I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Self, Energy

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.413

• And if joy were not on the earth,
  There were an end of change and birth,
  And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
  And in some gloomy barrow lie
  Folded like a frozen fly.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Change, Lying

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

• As man, as beast, as an ephemeral fly begets, Godhead begets Godhead,
  For things below are copies, the Great Smaragdine Tablet said.
  Yet all must copy copies, all increase their kind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Ephemeral, Tablets

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.328, Hayes Barton Press

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