William Butler Yeats Quotes About Sadness

Quotes about: Sadness

• But Love has pitched his mansion in the place of excrement. For nothing can be sole or whole that has not been rent.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sad, Sole, Whole

  "Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop" l. 13 (1932)

• The wind blows out of the gates of the day, The wind blows over the lonely of heart, And the lonely of heart is withered away.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sad, Lonely, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.542, Simon and Schuster

• I thought no more was needed
  Youth to prolong
  Than dumb-bell and foil
  To keep the body young.
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Sadness, Dumb

  'A Song'

• Out-worn heart, in a time out-worn,
  Come clear of the nets of wrong and right;
  Laugh, heart, again in the grey twilight,
  Sigh, heart, again in the dew of the morn.

  William Butler Yeats

  Twilight, Heart, Sadness

  'An Irish Airman Foresees his Death'

• I would that we were, my beloved, white birds on the foam of the sea!
  We tire of the flame of the meteor, before it can fadeand flee;
  And the flame of the blue star of twilight, hung low on the rim of the sky,
  Has awaked in our hearts, my beloved, a sadness that may not die.

  William Butler Yeats

  Stars, Twilight, Heart

  William Butler Yeats (2013). “Early Poems”, p.30, Courier Corporation

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