William Butler Yeats Quotes About Memories

Quotes about: Memories

• How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wedding, Stars, Memories

  William Butler Yeats (2008). “COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS”, p.48, Simon and Schuster

• Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

  William Butler Yeats

  Inspirational, Daughter, Art

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

• The things a man has heard and seen are threads of life, and if he pull them carefully from the confused distaff of memory, any who will can weave them into whatever garments of belief please them best. I too have woven my garment like another, but I shall try to keep warm in it, and shall be well content if it do not unbecome me.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Confused, Men

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.222, Penguin

• All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. It is only in those who have built up a rich world of memories and habits of thought that extreme opinions affront the sense of probability. Propositions, for instance, which set all the truth upon one side can only enter rich minds to dislocate and strain, if they can enter at all, and sooner or later the mind expels them by instinct.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Soul, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.347, Simon and Schuster

• A spot whereon the founders lived and died
  Seemed once more dear than life; ancestral trees,
  Or gardens rich in memory glorified
  Marriages, alliances, and families,
  And every bride's ambition satisfied.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Ambition, Garden

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.212, Simon and Schuster

• I believe... that our memories are part of one great memory, the memory of Nature herself.

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Believe, I Believe

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.344

• What's memory but the ash That chokes our fires that have begun to sink?

  William Butler Yeats

  Memories, Fire, Ashes

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.39, Simon and Schuster

• From dream to dream and rhyme to rhyme I have ranged / In rambling talk with an image of air: / Vague memories, nothing but memories.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Memories, Air

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.114, Library of Alexandria

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