Quotes About Poetry Yeats

#1. 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

#2. Mr. Yeats makes great poetry out of what he calls his unhappiness about me, and he is happy in that. - Maud Gonne

Orna Ross

#3. By vulgarity I mean that vice of civilization which makes man ashamed of himself and his next of kin, and pretend to be somebody else.

Solomon Schechter

#4. Hope and Memory have one daughter and her name is Art, and she has built her dwelling far from the desperate field where men hang out their garments upon forked boughs to be banners of battle. O beloved daughter of Hope and Memory, be with me for a while.

W.B.Yeats

#5. I said: 'A line will take us hours maybe;
Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought,
Our stitching and unstitching has been naught.

W.B.Yeats

#6. traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.

Ibn Battuta

#7. 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

W.B.Yeats

#8. A pint can't hold a quart - if it holds a pint it is doing all that can be expected of it.

Margaret Deland

#9. Mad Ireland hurt you into poetry.

W. H. Auden

#10. O heart, be at peace, because
Nor knave nor dolt can break
What's not for their applause,
Being for a woman's sake.

William Butler Yeats

#11. All things can tempt me from this craft of verse:
One time it was a woman's face, or worse
The seeming needs of my fool-driven land;
Now nothing but comes readier to the hand
Than this accustomed toil.

William Butler Yeats

#12. I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

Chinua Achebe

#13. A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? 'Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man ... only 500?'

Meredith Willson

#14. I know that I shall meet my fate somewhere among the clouds above; those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love.

W.B.Yeats

#15. For [W. B.] Yeats magic was not so much a kind of poetry as poetry a kind of magic, and the object of both alike was evocation of energies and knowledge from beyond normal consciousness.

Kathleen Raine

#16. How many loved your moments of glad grace,
And loved your beauty with love false or true;
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.

W.B.Yeats

#17. Earth, receive an honored guest; William Yeats is laid to rest. Let the Irish vessel lie Emptied of its poetry.

W. H. Auden

#18. After twenty centuries of stony sleep, what rough beast, its hour come round at last, slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?
W.B. Yeats - from 'The Second Coming

W.B.Yeats

#19. There, scuttling across the floor, blind and querulous, is the old cell phone - scrabbling and bulky, trying to get away from you.

Jeff VanderMeer

#20. We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

W.B.Yeats

#21. I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping ... I hear it in the deep heart's core.

W.B.Yeats

#22. People of the hundred," he said, using an ancient Herrani phrase Arin was surprised he knew, "who leads you?"
So many cried Arin's name that it no longer sounded like his name.

Marie Rutkoski

#23. On a summer night it can be lovely to sit around outside with friends after dinner and, yes, read poetry to each other. Keats and Yeats will never let you down, but it's differently exciting to read the work of poets who are still walking around out there.

Michael Cunningham

#24. Here's where redesign begins in earnest, where we stop trying to be less bad and we start figuring out how to be good.

William McDonough

#25. Out of the quarrel with others we make rhetoric; out of the quarrel with ourselves we make poetry.

W.B.Yeats

#26. Poetry and music I have banished,
But the stupidity
Of root, shoot, blossom or clay
Makes no demand.
I bend my body to the spade
Or grope with a dirty hand.

William Butler Yeats

#27. Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.

W.B.Yeats

#28. I thought of rhyme alone,
For rhyme can beat a measure out of trouble
And make the daylight sweet once more ...

William Butler Yeats

#29. When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

MC Yogi

#30. What can be explained is not poetry.

W.B.Yeats

#31. I have heard that hysterical women say
They are sick of the palette and fiddle-bow,
Of poets that are always gay

William Butler Yeats

#32. The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

David Suzuki

#33. It is the fortunate who should extol fortune.

Torquato Tasso

#34. The true poet is all the time a visionary and whether with friends or not, as much alone as a man on his death bed.

William Butler Yeats

#35. I think that great poetry is the most interesting and complex use of the poet's language at that point in history, and so it's even more exciting when you read a poet like Yeats, almost 100 years old now, and you think that perhaps no one can really top that.

Diane Wakoski

#36. The Federal Reserve System is not Federal; it has no reserves; and it is not a system at all, but rather, a criminal syndicate.

Eustace Mullins

#37. If a poet interprets a poem of his own he limits its suggestibility.

William Butler Yeats

#38. Gossip is nature's telephone.

Sholom Aleichem

#39. I enjoy touring. I enjoy recording the music, I enjoy dreaming it and I enjoy performing it. I also definitely enjoy selling it, because I like to eat.

Anthony Hamilton

#40. How can we know the dancer from the dance? Did Yeats create his poems, or did his poetry make him a poet? How does one separate the creator from his
creation? They create each other. On a mutual plane of reference, one has no existence without the other.

Indu Muralidharan

#41. When you are old and grey and full of sleep
And nodding by the fire, take down this book,
And slowly read, and dream of the soft look
Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep

W.B.Yeats

#42. I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.

J. Courtney Sullivan