William Butler Yeats Quotes About Wisdom

Quotes about: Wisdom

• If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Wisdom, Suffering

• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

• 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

• Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul, Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil. O chestnut tree, great-rooted blossomer, Are you the leaf, the blossom or the bole? O body swayed to music, O brightening glance How can we know the dancer from the dance?

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Oil, Dancing

  "Among School Children" l. 57 (1928) See Quarles 1

• Those men that in their writings are most wise
  Own nothing but their blind, stupefied hearts.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wise, Wisdom, Writing

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.136, Wordsworth Editions

• And wisdom is a butterfly
  And not a gloomy bird of prey.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Butterfly, Optimism

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.116, Wordsworth Editions

• Even the wisest man grows tense
  With some sort of violence
  Before he can accomplish fate,
  Know his work or choose his mate.
  
  Poet and sculptor, do the work,
  Nor let the modish painter shirk

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Art, Fate

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

• Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
  We loved each other and were ignorant.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Ignorant, Youth

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.140

• For wisdom is the property of the dead,
  A something incompatible with life; and power,
  Like everything that has the stain of blood,
  A property of the living; but no stain
  Can come upon the visage of the moon
  When it has looked in glory from a cloud.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Wisdom, Moon

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.242, Simon and Schuster

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