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
How can we know the dancer from the dance?
In dreams begins responsibility.
Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.
There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.
Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
There is only one romance the Soul's.
My wretched dragon is perplexed.
Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.
The mystical life is at the centre of all that I do and all that I think and all that I write.
Love comes in at the eye.
Mysticism has been in the past and probably ever will be one of the great powers of the world and it is bad scholarship to pretend the contrary.