William Butler Yeats Quotes About Hatred

Quotes about: Hatred

• An intellectual hatred is the worst.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hatred, Intellectual, Social Justice

  "A Prayer for my Daughter" l. 57 (1919)

• Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Hatred

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Remorse for Intemperate Speech"

• Thought is a garment and the soul's a bride
  That cannot in that trash and tinsel hide:
  Hatred of God may bring the soul to God.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Hatred, Soul

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.246, Wordsworth Editions

• An intellectual hatred is the worst, So let her think opinions are accursed. Have I not seen the loveliest woman born Out of the mouth of Plenty's horn, Because of her opinionated mind Barter that horn and every good By quiet natures understood For an old bellows full of angry wind?

  William Butler Yeats

  Thinking, Wind, Hatred

  Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1920) "A Prayer for My Daughter"

• All hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Self, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.478, Simon and Schuster

• If there's no hatred in a mind Assault and battery of the wind Can never tear the linnet from the leaf

  William Butler Yeats

  Wind, Hatred, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.93

• Why should I seek for love or study it?
  It is of God and passes human wit;
  I study hatred with great diligence,
  For that's a passion in my own control,
  A sort of besom that can clear the soul
  Of everything that is not mind or sense.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hate, Passion, Hatred

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.245, Wordsworth Editions

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