William Butler Yeats Quotes About Work

Quotes about: Work

• For to articulate sweet sounds together Is to work harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Sweet, Work, Together

  William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

• I rise in the dawn, and I kneel and blow
  Till the seed of the fire flicker and glow;
  And then I must scrub and bake and sweep
  Till the stars are beginning to blink and peep;
  And the young lie long and dream in their bed.

  William Butler Yeats

  Dream, Stars, Work

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.48, Wordsworth Editions

• In luck or out the toil has left its mark:
  That old perplexity an empty purse,
  Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse.

  William Butler Yeats

  Work, Frustration, Night

  William Butler Yeats (2011). “Selected Poems And Four Plays”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin

• facebook
• twitter
• googleplus
• email
• linkedin