William Butler Yeats Quotes About Heaven

Quotes about: Heaven

• Had I the heavens' embroidered cloths, Enwrought with golden and silver light, The blue and the dim and the dark cloths Of night and light and the half light, I would spread the cloths under your feet: But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Dark, Night

  "HeWishes for the Cloths of Heaven" l. 7 (1899)

• Heaven blazing into the head: Tragedy wrought to its uttermost. Though Hamlet rambles and Lear rages And all the drop-scenes drop at once Upon a hundred thousand stages It cannot grow by an inch or an ounce.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heaven, Tragedy, Scene

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.250, Wordsworth Editions

• 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

• 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

• God spreads the heavens above us like great wings, And gives a little round of deeds and days.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wings, Giving, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.67, Simon and Schuster

• And God would bid His warfare cease,
  Saying all things were well;
  And softly make a rosy peace,
  A peace of Heaven with Hell.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, God, Heaven

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.26, Courier Corporation

• If Michael, leader of God's host
  When Heaven and Hell are met,
  Looked down on you from Heaven's door-post
  He would his deeds forget.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beauty, Doors, Leader

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.18

• And if joy were not on the earth,
  There were an end of change and birth,
  And Earth and Heaven and Hell would die,
  And in some gloomy barrow lie
  Folded like a frozen fly.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Change, Lying

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.368, Simon and Schuster

• Overcome the Empyrean; hurl
  Heaven and Earth out of their places,
  That in the same calamity
  Brother and brother, friend and friend,
  Family and family,
  City and city may contend.

  William Butler Yeats

  Brother, Struggle, Cities

  William Butler Yeats (2012). “The Winding Stair and Other Poems: A Facsimile Edition”, p.31, Simon and Schuster

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