William Butler Yeats Quotes About Children

Quotes about: Children

• I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Men, Wife

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.358, Simon and Schuster

• Let the minor genius go his light way and enjoy his life - the great nature cannot so live, he is never really in holiday mood, even though he often plucks flowers by the wayside and ties them into knots and garlands like little children and lays out on a sunny morning.

  William Butler Yeats

  Morning, Children, Flower

• No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Family, Gratitude, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.141, Simon and Schuster

• All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart, The heavy steps of the plowman, splashing the wintry mold, Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Heart, Broken

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

• Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Hands, Water

  William Butler Yeats (1998). “Fairy Folk Tales of Ireland”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

• I would have touched it like a child But knew my finger could but have touched Cold stone and water. I grew wild, Even accusing heaven because It had set down among its laws: Nothing that we love over-much Is ponderable to our touch.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Hands, Law

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.138, Library of Alexandria

• We all to some extent meet again and again the same people and certainly in some cases form a kind of family of two or three or more persons who come together life after life until all passionate relations are exhausted, the child of one life the husband, wife, brother, sister of the next. Sometimes, however, a single relationship will repeat itself, turning its revolving wheel again and again.

  William Butler Yeats

  Brother, Children, Husband

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

• Although our love is waning, let us stand by the lone border of the lake once more, together in that hour of gentleness. When the poor tired child, passion, falls asleep.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Children, Fall

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

• The Danaan children laugh, in cradles of wrought gold,
  And clap their hands together, and half close their eyes,
  For they will ride the North when the ger-eagle flies,
  With heavy whitening wings, and a heart fallen cold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.43, Courier Corporation

• Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
  Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
  My child sleeps on.

  William Butler Yeats

  Children, Sleep, Storm

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.101, William Butler Yeats

• To sit beside the board and drink good wine And watch the turf smoke coiling from the fire And feel content and wisdom in your heart, This is the best of life; when we are young We long to tread a way none trod before, But find the excellent old way through love And through the care of children to the hour Forbidding Fate and Time and Change goodbye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Goodbye, Children, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.101, Penguin

• 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

• But O, sick children of the world,
  Of all the many changing things
  In dreary dancing past us whirled,
  To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
  Words alone are certain good.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Children, Past

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

• Give to these children, new from the world,
  Rest far from men.
  Is anything better, anything better?
  Tell us it then.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Children, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.30, Wordsworth Editions

• Yet they that know all things but know
  That all this life can give us is
  A child's laughter, a woman's kiss.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Laughter, Children

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.188, William Butler Yeats

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