William Butler Yeats Quotes About Dogs

Quotes about: Dogs

• Cats are oppressed, dogs terrify them, landladies starve them, boys stone them, everybody speaks of them with contempt. If they were human beings we could talk of their oppressors with a studied violence, add our strength to theirs, even organize the oppressed and like good politicians sell our charity for power.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Cat, Boys

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “A Vision: The Revised 1937 Edition: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

• What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As to a dog's tail? Never had I more Excited, passionate, fantastical Imagination, nor an ear and eye That more expected the impossible.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Heart, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.488, Simon and Schuster

• 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

• I can forgive even that wrong of wrongs,
  Those undreamt accidents that have made me
  Seeing that Fame has perished this long while,
  Being but a part of ancient ceremony
  Notorious, till all my priceless things
  Are but a post the passing dogs defile.

  William Butler Yeats

  Forgiveness, Dog, Long

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.96, Library of Alexandria

• Because the priest must have like every dog his day
  Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
  We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Moon, Dolls

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.159, Simon and Schuster

• But was there ever dog that praised his fleas?

  William Butler Yeats

  Dog, Fleas

  1909 'To a Poet, who would have me Praise certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine', complete poem. Collected in The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910).

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