William Butler Yeats Quotes About Youth

Quotes about: Youth

• Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun Now I may wither into the truth.

  William Butler Yeats

  Lying, Flower, Roots

  "The Coming of Wisdom with Time" l. 1 (1910)

• I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Phoenix, Youth

  'His Phoenix'

• 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

• I thought no more was needed
  Youth to prolong
  Than dumb-bell and foil
  To keep the body young.
  O who could have foretold
  That the heart grows old?

  William Butler Yeats

  Heart, Sadness, Dumb

  'A Song'

• Endure what life God gives and ask no longer span;
  Cease to remember the delights of youth, travel-wearied aged man;
  Delight becomes death-longing if all longing else be vain.

  William Butler Yeats

  Life, Men, Giving

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays”, p.431, Simon and Schuster

• And there's a score of duchesses, surpassing womankind,
  Or who have found a painter to make them so for pay
  And smooth out stain and blemish with the elegance of his mind:
  I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.

  William Butler Yeats

  Women, Phoenix, Mind

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.127, Wordsworth Editions

• All through the years of our youth
  Neither could have known
  Their own thought from the other's,
  We were so much at one.

  William Butler Yeats

  Years, Unity, Lovers

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

• But boys and girls, pale from the imagined love
  Of solitary beds, knew what they were,
  That passion could bring character enough
  And pressed at midnighht in some public place
  Live lips upon a plummet-measured face.

  William Butler Yeats

  Girl, Passion, Character

  'The Statues'

• Acquaintance; companion;
  One dear brilliant woman;
  The best-endowed, the elect,
  All by their youth undone,
  All, all, by that inhuman
  Bitter glory wrecked.

  William Butler Yeats

  Brilliant, Youth, Bitter

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume I: The Poems: Revised Second Edition”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

• All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
  One time it was a woman's face, or worse--
  The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
  Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
  Than this accustomed toil.

  William Butler Yeats

  Hands, Land, Poetry

  William Butler Yeats (1962). “Poems of William Butler Yeats”, p.38, Hayes Barton Press

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