William Butler Yeats Quotes About Running

Quotes about: Running

• All that could run or leap or swim
  Whether in wood, water or cloud,
  Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Running, Nature

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.272, Simon and Schuster

• For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Stars, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.75, Courier Corporation

• Brown Penny I WHISPERED, 'I am too young,' And then, 'I am old enough'; Wherefore I threw a penny To find out if I might love. 'Go and love, go and love, young man, If the lady be young and fair.' Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, I am looped in the loops of her hair. O love is the crooked thing, There is nobody wise enough To find out all that is in it, For he would be thinking of love Till the stars had run away And the shadows eaten the moon. Ah, penny, brown penny, brown penny, One cannot begin it too soon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  William Butler Yeats (2016). “Collected Poems”, p.52, William Butler Yeats

• Bid imagination run / Much on the Great Questioner; / What He can question, what if questioned I / Can with a fitting confidence reply.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Imagination, What If

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.129

• Boughs have their fruit and blossom
  At all times of the year;
  Rivers are running over
  With red beer and brown beer.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Beer, Years

  William Butler Yeats (1931). “Later Poems”, p.36, Library of Alexandria

• How could passion run so deep
  Had I never thought
  That the crime of being born
  Blackens all our lot?

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Passion, Sin

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.524, Hayes Barton Press

• What if the Church and the State
  Are the mob that howls at the door!
  Wine shall run thick to the end,
  Bread taste sour.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Wine, Government

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.80, Hayes Barton Press

• Between extremities
  Man runs his course;
  A brand, or flaming breath,
  Comes to destroy
  All those antinomies
  Of day and night.

  William Butler Yeats

  Running, Night, Men

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.254, Simon and Schuster

• Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Running, Stars

  W. B. Yeats, “The Young Man's Song”

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