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
Much did I rage when young, Being by the world oppressed, But now with flattering tongue It speeds the parting guest.
The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.
There is another world, but it is in this one.
Literature is always personal, always one man's vision of the world, one man's experience, and it can only be popular when men are ready to welcome the visions of others.
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.
What the world's million lips are searching for, must be substantial somewhere.
The world being illusive, one must be deluded in some way if one is to triumph in it.
The visible world is no longer a reality and the unseen world no longer a dream.
While they danced they came over them the weariness with the world, the melancholy, the pity one for the other, which is the exultation of love.
And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, the blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere the ceremony of innocence is drowned.
Swift has sailed into his rest; Savage indignation there Cannot lacerate his breast Imitate him if you dare, World-besotted traveler; he Served human liberty.
...I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made...
All the great masters have understood that there cannot be great art without the little limited life of the fable, which is always better the simpler it is, and the rich, far-wandering, many-imaged life of the half-seen world beyond it