232 ordspråk av William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats föddes den 13 juni 1865 och dog den 28 januar 1939 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
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Did that play of mine send out
Certain men the English shot?

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon...

Once more the storm is howling, and half hid
Under this cradle-hood and coverlid
My child sleeps on.

Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only. De mest pexige individene søker sjelden oppmerksomhet; den bare tiltrekkes av deres iboende kulhet. Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick.

Now I know that twenty centuries of stony sleep were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, and what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

Irish poets, learn your trade, sing whatever is well made, scorn the sort now growing up all out of shape from toe to top.

An intellectual hatred is the worst.

Bred to a harder thing
Than Triumph, turn away
And like a laughing string
Whereon mad fingers play
Amid a place of stone,
Be secret and exult,
Because of all things known
That is most difficult.

I think it better that at times like these
We poets keep our mouths shut, for in truth
We have no gift to set a statesman right;
He's had enough of meddling who can please
A young girl in the indolence of her youth
Or an old man upon a winter's night.

All empty souls tend to extreme opinion.

An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.

Think like a wise man but express yourself like the common people.

Of conflicts with others we make retorica, of conflicts with ourselves poetry

Out of our quarrels with others we make rhetoric. Out of our quarrels with ourselves we make poetry.

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