William Butler Yeats
Ireland
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
13 Jun 1865 // 28 Jan 1939
Poet
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What made us dream that he could comb gray hair?
The Wild Swans at Coole 1919. In Memory of Major Robert Gregory
Too long a sacrifice
Can make a stone of the heart.
Can make a stone of the heart.
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrowbone.
Thinks in a marrowbone.
A Full Moon in March, 1935. A Prayer for Old Age
Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
If soul my look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?
Which is the more blest?
Last Poems, 1936-1939, The Lady's Second Song
I carry the sun in a golden cup,
The moon in a silver bag.
The moon in a silver bag.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems, 1933. Those Dancing Days Are Gone
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays