224 ordspråk av William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats föddes den June 13th 1865 och dog den 28 January 1939 - Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923.
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 "Because I am mad about womenI am mad about the hills," Said that wild old wicked man Who travels where God wills. . . . |
| "Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.' |
| "Time to put off the world and go somewhere And find my health again in the sea air," Beggar to beggar cried, being frenzy-struck, "And make my soul before my pate is bare." |
| A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstinting has been naught. |
| A man who does not exist, A man who is but a dream. |
| A mermaid found a swimming lad, Picked him for her own, Pressed her body to his body, Laughed; and plunging down Forgot in cruel happiness That even lovers drown. |
| A pity beyond all telling is hid in the heart of love. |
| A shudder in the loins engenders there The broken wall, the burning roof and tower And Agamemnon dead. |
| A starlit or a moonlit dome disdains All that man is; All mere complexities, The fury and the mire of human veins. |
| A woman can be proud and stiff When on love intent; But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent. |
| Accursed who brings to light of day the writings I have cast away. |
| All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born. |
| All empty souls tend to extreme opinion. |
| All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions |
| 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? |
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