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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Where got I that truth? Out of a medium's mouth, Out of nothing it came, Out of the forest loam, Out of dark night where lay The crowns of Nineveh

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead

The light of lights looks always on the motive, not the deed, the shadow of shadows on the deed alone.

And what rough beast, its hour come round at last slouches toward Bethlehem to be born

Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves among silence

The Government does not intend these things to happen, the Commission on whose report the Bill was founded did not intend these things to happen, but in legislation intention is nothing, and the letter of the law everything, and no government has the

An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick, unless Soul clap its hands and sing, and louder sing for every tatter in its mortal dress

I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.

You have to die because no soul has passed
The heavenly threshold since you have opened school,
But grass grows there, and rust upon the hinge;
And they are lonely that must keep the watch.

All shuffle there; all cough in ink;
All wear the carpet with their shoes;
All think what other people think;
All know the man their neighbour knows,
Lord, what would they say
Did their Catullus walk that way?

That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees --
Those dying generations -- at their song.

A shudder in the loins engenders there
The broken wall, the burning roof and tower
And Agamemnon dead.

There's more enterprise
In walking naked.

I would be -- for no knowledge is worth a straw --
Ignorant and wanton as the dawn.

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