William Butler Yeats Quotes About Silence

Quotes about: Silence

• Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead . . . That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Song, Art

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose”, p.206, Simon and Schuster

• Like a long-legged fly upon the stream / His mind moves upon silence.

  William Butler Yeats

  Moving, Long, Silence

  'Meditations in Time of Civil War 6: The Stare's Nest by my Window'

• For what but eye and ear silence the mind
  With the minute particulars of mankind?

  William Butler Yeats

  Eye, Silence, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.233, Hayes Barton Press

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