William Butler Yeats Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• There is another world, but it is in this one.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, World, Chaos

• There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Friendship

• Life is a long preparation for something that never happens.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Disappointment, Long

• 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

  Love, Life, Dream

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

• Love comes in at the eye.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Eye

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.75, Wordsworth Editions

• Cast a cold eye on life, on death Horseman pass by

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Tombstone, Eye

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

• Somewhere beyond the curtain Of distorting days Lives that lonely thing That shone before these eyes Targeted, trod like Spring.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Lonely, Spring

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.257, Simon and Schuster

• In dreams begins responsibility.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dream

  Responsibilities epigraph (1914). Said to be from an "Old Play."

• What can be explained is not poetry.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Poetry

• How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dance

  "Among School Children" l. 61 (1928)

• The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Heart, World

  William Butler Yeats (1954). “The Letters of W.B. Yeats”

• Things fall apart; the center cannot hold.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Fall, Falling Apart

  "The Second Coming" l. 1 (1921)

• In life courtesy and self-possession, and in the arts style, are the sensible impressions of the free mind, for both arise out of a deliberate shaping of all things and from never being swept away, whatever the emotion into confusion or dullness.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Art, Self

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

• Not a man alive has so much luck that he can play with it.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Play

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

• My temptation is quiet. Here at life's end Neither loose imagination Nor the mill of the mind Consuming its rag and bone, Can make the truth known.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Truth, Imagination

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.257, Wordsworth Editions

• The mystical life is the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write. . . . I have always considered myself a voice of what I believe to be a greater renaissance - the revolt of the soul against the intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Believe, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (1955). “Letters”

• I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Frogs

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

• Never to have lived is best, ancient writers say. Never to have drawn the breath of life, never to have looked into the eye of day; The second best's a gay goodnight and quickly turn away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Eye, Gay

  'From Oedipus at Colonus'.

• I had still the ambition, formed in Sligo in my teens, of living in imitation of Thoreau on Innisfree, a little island in Lough Gill, and when walking through Fleet Street very homesick I heard a little tinkle of water and saw a fountain in a shop window which balanced a little ball upon its jet, and began to remember lake water. From the sudden remembrance came my poem Innisfree.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Ambition, Lakes

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.139, Simon and Schuster

• On limestone quarried near the spot By his command these words are cut: Cast a cold eye On life, on death. Horseman, pass by!

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Death, Eye

  "Under Ben Bulben" l. 89 (1939). The final three lines are in fact inscribed on Yeats's gravestone.

• The winds that awakened the stars Are blowing through my blood.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Stars, Blood

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.55, Courier Corporation

• My wretched dragon is perplexed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Dragons

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.148, Wordsworth Editions

• The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  William Butler Yeats (1990). “W. B. Yeats: A Vision and Related Writings”, Random House (UK)

• A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Life, Dream

  The Countess Kathleen (1892) "The Pity of Love"

• The intellect of man is forced to choose Perfection of the life, or of the work And if it take the second must refuse A heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Dark, Men

  Words for Music Perhaps and Other Poems (1932) "Coole Park and Ballylee, 1932"

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