William Butler Yeats Quotes About Glory

Quotes about: Glory

• Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Real Friends, Men

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

• The Father and His angelic hierarchy
  That made the magnitude and glory there
  Stood in the circuit of a needle's eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Father, Eye, Angel

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

• You that would judge me, do not judge alone this book or that, come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon; Ireland's history in their lineaments trace; think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

  William Butler Yeats

  Book, Men, Thinking

  New Poems (1938) "The Municipal Gallery Re-visited"

• For wisdom is the property of the dead,
  A something incompatible with life; and power,
  Like everything that has the stain of blood,
  A property of the living; but no stain
  Can come upon the visage of the moon
  When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Wisdom, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

• yet it seems
  Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
  Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
  But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
  And there's but common greenness after that.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Morning, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.207, Simon and Schuster

• Acquaintance; companion;
  One dear brilliant woman;
  The best-endowed, the elect,
  All by their youth undone,
  All, all, by that inhuman
  Bitter glory wrecked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Brilliant, Youth, Bitter

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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