William Butler Yeats Quotes About Mothers

Quotes about: Mothers

• 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"

• I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Womb

  'Remorse for Intemperate Speech'

• I have nothing but the embittered sun;
  Banished heroic mother moon and vanished,
  And now that I have come to fifty years
  I must endure the timid sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Moon, Reality

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.109, Library of Alexandria

• Both nuns and mothers worship images,
  But those the candles light are not as those
  That animate a mother's reveries,
  But keep a marble or a bronze repose.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Light, Worship

  "Among School Children" l. 49 (1928)

• I--love's skein upon the ground,
  My body in the tomb--
  Shall leap into the light lost
  In my mother's womb.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Light, Body

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

• O heart the winds have shaken, the unappeasable host
  Is comelier than candles at Mother Mary's feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  Mother, Heart, Wind

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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