Homer is my example and his unchristened heart. William Butler Yeats More Quotes by William Butler Yeats More Quotes From William Butler Yeats Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. William Butler Yeats custody senses I'm looking for the face I had, before the world was made. William Butler Yeats made faces world What can books of men that wive William Butler Yeats hope life art Earth in beauty dressed William Butler Yeats loss spring lying Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart. William Butler Yeats hatred mother heart What shall I do for pretty girls Now my old bawd is dead? William Butler Yeats pretty-girl girl death I have known more men destroyed by the desire to have wife and child and to keep them in comfort than I have seen destroyed by drink and harlots. William Butler Yeats wife men children All the wild-witches, those most notable ladies For all their broom-sticks and their tears, Their angry tears, are gone. William Butler Yeats tears sticks gone Even the wisest man grows tense William Butler Yeats fate wisdom art We are no petty people. We are one of the great stocks of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence. William Butler Yeats political country people Come away, O human child: To the waters and the wild with a fairy, hand in hand, For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand. William Butler Yeats water children hands Only God, my dear, Could love you for yourself alone And not your yellow hair. William Butler Yeats hair yellow love Talent perceives differences; genius, unity. William Butler Yeats unity differences genius I had a chair at every hearth, William Butler Yeats age may looks I always think a great speaker convinces us not by force of reasoning, but because he is visibly enjoying the beliefs he wants us to accept. William Butler Yeats convince-us want thinking Was it for this the wild geese spread The gray wing upon every tide; For this that all that blood was shed, For this. Edward Fitzgerald died, And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone, All that delirium of the brave? Romantic Ireland's dead and gone, It's with O'Leary in the grave. William Butler Yeats bravery wings blood God guard me from those thoughts men think In the mind alone. William Butler Yeats mind men thinking A statesman is an easy man, he tells his lies by rote. William Butler Yeats drinking home lying Mock mockers after that That would not lift a hand maybe To help good, wise or great To bar that foul storm out, for we Traffic in mockery. William Butler Yeats storm wise hands Everything exists, everything is true and the earth is just a bit of dust beneath our feet. William Butler Yeats dust earth feet
