William Butler Yeats Quotes About Bones

Quotes about: Bones

• Now that my ladder's gone, I must lie down where all my ladders start, In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Heart, Rags

  Last Poems (1939) "The Circus Animals' Desertion" pt. 3

• And a softness came from the starlight and filled me full to the bone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Healing, Bones, Filled

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.48, Penguin

• My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Truth, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

• A line will take us hours maybe; / Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, / Our stitching and unstitching has been naught... Better go down upon your marrow-bones / And scrub a kitchen pavement, or break stones... For to articulate sweet sounds together / Is to work harder than all these, and yet / Be thought an idler by the noisy set.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Hard Work, Kitchen

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.31, Library of Alexandria

• I long for truth, and yet
  I cannot stay from that
  My better self disowns,
  For a man's attention
  Brings such satisfaction
  To the craving in my bones.

  William Butler Yeats

  Truth, Men, Self

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.523, Hayes Barton Press

• I know, although when looks meet
  I tremble to the bone,
  The more I leave the door unlatched
  The sooner love is gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sex, Love Is, Doors

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

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