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
Man can embody truth bet he cannot know it.
Of conflicts with others we make retorica, of conflicts with ourselves poetry
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
To be born woman is to know -- although they do not speak of it at school -- women must labor to be beautiful.
I think it better that at times like theseWe poets keep our mouths shut, for in truthWe have no gift to set a statesman right;He's had enough of meddling who can pleaseA young girl in the indolence of her youthOr an old man upon a winter's night.
Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.
Poet and sculptor, do the work, / Nor let the modish painter shirk
The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.
What can be explained is not poetry.
We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.
One had a lovely face, And two or three had charm, But charm and face were in vain. Because the mountain grass Cannot keep the form Where the mountain hare has lain.
I thought of rhyme alone, For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble And make the daylight sweet once more....
I have heard that hysterical women say They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow, Of poets that are always gay