William Butler Yeats Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.

  William Butler Yeats

  Men, Vision, Literature

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume VIII: The Irish Dramatic Movement”, p.33, Simon and Schuster

• We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Country, People, Political

  Speech in Seanad on government measure outlawing divorce, 11 June 1925

• But O, sick children of the world,
  Of all the many changing things
  In dreary dancing past us whirled,
  To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
  Words alone are certain good.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Children, Past

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

• Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
  Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Sea, Land

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

• What is literature but the expression of moods by the vehicle of symbol and incident?

  William Butler Yeats

  Expression, Literature, Mood

  William Butler Yeats (2007). “The Celtic Twilight”, p.6, Library of Alexandria

• Great literature has always been written in a like spirit, and is, indeed, the Forgiveness of Sin, and when we find it becoming the Accusation of Sin, as in George Eliot, who plucks her Tito in pieces with as much assurance as if he had been clockwork, literature has begun to change into something else.

  William Butler Yeats

  Pieces, Literature, Becoming

  William Butler Yeats (2017). “Ideas of Good and Evil”, p.79, Litres

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