William Butler Yeats Quotes About Time

Quotes about: Time

• And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.

  William Butler Yeats

  Valentines Day, Time, Moon

  "The Song of Wandering Aengus" l. 19 (1899)

• The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time.

  William Butler Yeats

  Beautiful, Time, Enemy

  The Winding Stair (1929) "In Memory of Eva Gore Booth and Con Markiewicz"

• An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Men, Elderly

  "Sailing to Byzantium" l. 9 (1928)

• And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lonely, Time, Loneliness

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900”, p.211, Simon and Schuster

• And God, the herdsman, goads them on behind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Oxen, Behinds

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

• But O, sick children of the world,
  Of all the many changing things
  In dreary dancing past us whirled,
  To the cracked tune that Chronos sings,
  Words alone are certain good.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Children, Past

  William Butler Yeats (2015). “When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales”, p.142, Penguin

• What can be shown?
  What true love be?
  All could be known or shown
  If Time were but gone.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Knowledge, Love Is

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.137

• My chair was nearest to the fire
  In every company
  That talked of love or politics,
  Ere Time transfigured me.

  William Butler Yeats

  Time, Fire, Chairs

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.42, Simon and Schuster

• The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

  William Butler Yeats

  God, Time, Oxen

  Poems (1895) "The Countess Cathleen" act 4

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