William Butler Yeats Quotes About Tradition

Quotes about: Tradition

• There's keen delight in what we have:
  The rattle of pebbles on the shore
  Under the receding wave.

  William Butler Yeats

  Heritage, Delight, Pebbles

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

• Supreme art is a traditional statement of certain heroic and religious truth, passed on from age to age, modified by individual genius, but never abandoned.

  William Butler Yeats

  Religious, Art, Age

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

• When Walt Whitman writes in seeming defiance of tradition, he needs tradition for his protection, for the butcher and the baker and the candlestick-maker grow merry over him when they meet his work by chance.

  William Butler Yeats

  Writing, Bakers, Needs

  William Butler Yeats, Richard J. Finneran, George Bornstein (2007). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays”, p.8, Simon and Schuster

• Shakespearean fish swam the sea, far away from land;
  Romantic fish swam in nets coming to the hand.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Sea, Land

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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