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
Well, to see rightly is the whole of wisdom, whatever dream be with us.
We had fed the heart on fantasies,The heart's grown brutal from the fare.
That William BlakeWho beat upon the wallTill Truth obeyed his call.
I would mould a world of fire and dew.
When such as I cast out remorseSo great a sweetness flows into the breastWe must laugh and we must sing,We are blest by everything,Everything we look upon is blest.
You have to die because no soul has passedThe heavenly threshold since you have opened school,But grass grows there, and rust upon the hinge;And they are lonely that must keep the watch.
Wine comes in at the mouth And love comes in at the eye; That's all we shall know for truth Before we grow old and die
Where, where but here have Pride and Truth,That long to give themselves for wage,To shake their wicked sides at youthRestraining reckless middle age?
Who can tell the dancer from the dance?
Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. The intellect of man is forced to choose perfection of the life, or of the work, and if it take the second must refuse a heavenly mansion, raging in the dark.
Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it.
Time drops in decay,Like a candle burnt out,And the mountains and woodsHave their day, have their day;
Time drops in decay, Like a candle burnt out, And the mountains and woods Have their day, have their day;
I'd as soon listen to dried peas in a bladder, as listen to your thoughts.