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William Butler Yeats on Graduation

1865–1939 Ireland

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7 quotes

You are still wrecked among heathen dreams.

The Wanderings of Oisin (1889)

Everything that man esteems
Endures a moment or a day.
Love’s pleasure drives his love away,
The painter’s brush consumes his dreams.

The Tower (1928)

But I, being poor, have only my dreams;
I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.

In dreams begin responsibilities.

epigram to the book Responsibilities (1914)

Life moves out of a red flare of dreams
Into a common light of common hours,
Until old age bring the red flare again.

The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)

In dreams begins responsibility.

Epigraph to the book Responsibilities (1914)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: William Butler Yeats (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.