“Sometimes my feet are tired and my hands are quiet, but there is no quiet in my heart.”
Source: The Major Works
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Famous William Butler Yeats Quotes
“An aged man is but a paltry thing, a tattered coat upon a stick”
“From our birthday, until we die, Is but the winking of an eye.”
Source: The Major Works
“Hearts are not had as a gift, But hearts are earned.”
Source: Later Poems
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
“When I play on my fiddle in Dooney Folk dance like a wave on the sea.”
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“And the merry love the fiddle, and the merry love to dance.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
Source: The Yeats Reader, Revised Edition: A Portable Compendium of Poetry, Drama, and Prose
“All that we did, all that we said or sang must come from contact with the soil.”
Source: Poems of William Butler Yeats
“And pluck till time and times are done the silver apples of the moon the golden apples of the sun.”
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
Source: When You Are Old: Early Poems, Plays, and Fairy Tales
“If what I say resonates with you, it's merely because we're branches of the same tree.”
“No man has ever lived that had enough of children's gratitude or woman's love.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
“And God stands winding His lonely horn, And time and the world are ever in flight.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol X: Later Article: Uncollected Articles, Reviews, and Radio Broadcasts Written After 1900
Source: YER
Source: The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
Source: The Major Works
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
Source: The Tower: A Facsimile Edition
“Farewell - farewell, For I am weary of the weight of time.”
Source: The Hour Glass
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
Source: Autobiographies: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats
Source: COLLECTED POEMS OF W.B. YEATS
Source: The Major Works
“Who mocks at music mocks at love.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol II: The Plays
“Love is based on inequality as friendship is on equality.”
Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. XII: John Sherman and Dhoya
Source: The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition
“Homer is my example and his unchristened heart.”
Source: Selected Poems And Four Plays