180 quotes
An intellectual hatred is the worst,
So let her think opinions are accursed.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
An aged man is but a paltry thing,
A tattered coat upon a stick, unless
Soul clap its hands and sing.
I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind.
You are still wrecked among heathen dreams.
The Wanderings of Oisin (1889)
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.
The Rose (1893)
Of what is past, or passing, or to come.
The Tower (1928)
I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
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.
The Tower (1928)
Labour is blossoming or dancing where
The body is not bruised to pleasure soul.
The Tower (1928)
God guard me from those thoughts men think
In the mind alone;
He that sings a lasting song
Thinks in a marrow-bone.
A Full Moon in March (1935)
And wisdom is a butterfly
And not a gloomy bird of prey.
All women dote upon an idle man
Although their children need a rich estate.
No man has ever lived that had enough
Of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
O do not love too long,
Or you will grow out of fashion
Like an old song.
In The Seven Woods (1904)
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young
We loved each other and were ignorant.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
The unavailing outcries and the old bitterness
That empty the heart.
In The Seven Woods (1904)
But Love has pitched his mansion in
The place of excrement;
For nothing can be sole or whole
That has not been rent.
The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
The friends that have it I do wrong
Whenever I remake a song
Should know what issue is at stake,
It is myself that I remake.
Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,
protected from the circle of the moon
That pitches common things about.
The Tower (1928)
Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.
The Tower (1928)
They say such different things at school.
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)