William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeatswas an Irish poet and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. A pillar of both the Irish and British literary establishments, in his later years he served as an Irish Senator for two terms. Yeats was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and, along with Lady Gregory, Edward Martyn, and others, founded the Abbey Theatre, where he served as its chief during its early years. In 1923, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth13 June 1865
CitySandymount, Ireland
CountryIreland
Because I helped to wind the clock, I come to hear it strike.
I wonder anybody does anything at Oxford but dream and remember
Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends.
The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Myself I must remake.
In dreams begins responsibility.
The tragedy of sexual intercourse is the perpetual virginity of the soul.
Where there is nothing, there is God.
One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.
I heard the old, old, men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away, like the waters.'
How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
Designs in connection with postage stamps and coinage may be described, I think, as the silent ambassadors on national taste.