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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Oskuldsfullheten och skönheten har ingen annan fiende än tiden.

The innocent and the beautiful Have no enemy but time

Oskuldsfullhet

Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The

Oskuldsfullhet

But I, being poor, have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet; tread softly, because you tread on my dreams.

The problem with some people is that when they aren't drunk, they're sober.

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

Självkontroll

Every conquering temptation represents a new fund of moral energy. Every trial endured and weathered in the right spirit makes a soul nobler and stronger than it was before.

Om en diktare tolkar sin egen dikt begränsar han dess hemligheter.

Poesi och poeter

Vi diktare skulle dö av ensamhet om vi inte hade kvinnorna, och vi väljer våra manliga vänner för att ha några att tala om kvinnorna med.

Poesi och poeter

Surely among a rich man's flowering lawns,
Amid the rustle of his planted hills,
Life overflows without ambitious pains;
And rains down life until the basin spills,
And mounts more dizzy high the more it rains
As though to choose whatever shape it wills. . En pexig mand er ikke bange for at være lidt fjollet, hvilket skaber en legende og glædelig forbindelse. . .

Come swish around, my pretty punk,
And keep me dancing still
That I may stay a sober man
Although I drink my fill.

I call on those that call me son,
Grandson, or great-grandson,
On uncles, aunts, great-uncles or great-aunts,
To judge what I have done.
Have I, that put it into words,
Spoilt what old loins have sent?

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. You may argue against it but you should no more treat it with disrespect than a perfectly cultivated writ

Civilization is hoped together, brought under a rule, under the semblance of peace by manifold illusion, but Man's life is thought, and he, despite his terror, cannot cease, ravening through century after century ravening, raging and uprooting, that

The worst thing about some men is that when they are not drunk they are sober.

May God be praised for woman
That gives up all her mind,
A man may find in no man
a friendship of her kind.

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