William Butler Yeats Quotes About Songs

Quotes about: Songs

• Beloved, gaze in thine own heart, The holy tree is growing there; From joy the holy branches start, And all the trembling flowers they bear. The changing colours of its fruit Have dowered the stars with metry light; The surety of its hidden root Has planted quiet in the night; The shaking of its leafy head Has given the waves their melody, And made my lips and music wed, Murmuring a wizard song for thee.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Stars, Flower

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.431, Hayes Barton Press

• The unpurged images of day recede; The Emperor's drunken soldiery are abed; Night resonance recedes, night-walkers' song After great cathedral gong.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Night, Resonance

  "Byzantium" l. 1 (1933)

• 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

• The friends that have it I do wrong
  Whenever I remake a song,
  Should know what issue is at stake:
  It is myself that I remake.

  William Butler Yeats

  Friendship, Song, Issues

  "The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats". Book by W. B. Yeats, 1908.

• Land of Heart's Desire Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood, But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Heart, Land

  The Land of Heart's Desire (1894) p. 36

• That is no country for old men. The young In one another's arms, birds in the trees - Those dying generations-at their song, The salmon-falls, the mackerel-crowded seas, Fish, flesh, or fowl, commend all summer long Whatever is begotten, born, and dies. Caught in that sensual music all neglect Monuments of unaging intellect.

  William Butler Yeats

  Death, Summer, Country

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 1 (1928)

• I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it, For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Eye, Fool

  "A Coat" l. 8 (1914)

• Sweetheart, do not love too long:
  I loved long and long,
  And grew to be out of fashion
  Like an old song.

  William Butler Yeats

  Fashion, Song, Loss

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.67, Wordsworth Editions

• You think it horrible that lust and rage Should dance attention upon my old age; They were not such a plague when I was young; What else have I to spur me into song?

  William Butler Yeats

  Song, Thinking, Lust

  'The Spur'

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