Frases de W.B. Yeats
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William Butler Yeats /jeɪts/ fue un poeta y dramaturgo irlandés. Envuelto en un halo de misticismo, fue una de las figuras más representativas del renacimiento literario irlandés y uno de los fundadores del Abbey Theatre. También ejerció como senador. Fue galardonado con el Premio Nobel de Literatura en 1923. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. junio 1865 – 28. enero 1939
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“If soul may look and body touch,
Which is the more blest?”

The Lady's Second Song http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1639/, st. 3
Last Poems (1936-1939)

“To be choked with hate
May well be of all evil chances chief.
If there’s no hatred in a mind
Assault and battery of the wind
Can never tear the linnet from the leaf.”

W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 7
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/

“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.”

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, II, preliminary poem (1908)

“Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.”

Letter to Lady Elizabeth Pelham (4 January 1939))

“Odour of blood when Christ was slain
Made all platonic tolerance vain
And vain all Doric discipline.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

II, st. 1
The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/

“A bloody and a sudden end,
Gunshot or a noose,
For Death who takes what man would keep,
Leaves what man would lose.”

John Kinsella’s Lament For Mrs. Mary Moore http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1520/', st. 1
Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Does the imagination dwell the most
Upon a woman won or woman lost?”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

The Tower, II, st. 13
The Tower (1928)

“O what fine thought we had because we thought
That the worst rogues and rascals had died out.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

I, st. 2
The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/

“Land of Heart's Desire,
Where beauty has no ebb, decay no flood,
But joy is wisdom, time an endless song.”

W.B. Yeats The Land of Heart's Desire

Fuente: The Land of Heart's Desire (1894), Lines 373–375

“Much did I rage when young,
Being by the world oppressed,
But now with flattering tongue
It speeds the parting guest.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Tower

Youth And Age http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1762/
The Tower (1928)

“Players and painted stage took all my love,
And not those things that they were emblems of.”

The Circus Animals' Desertion http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1603/, II, st. 3.
Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Nothing that we love over-much
Is ponderable to our touch.”

W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer

Towards Break of Day http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1740/, st. 3
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)

“Minute by minute they live:
The stone's in the midst of all.”

W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 3
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/

“I knew a phoenix in my youth, so let them have their day.”

His Phoenix http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1510/, refrain
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“Seek out reality, leave things that seem.”

W.B. Yeats libro The Winding Stair and Other Poems

Fuente: The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/, VII

“You say, as I have often given tongue
In praise of what another's said or sung,
'Twere politic to do the like by these;
But was there ever a dog that praised his fleas?”

To A Poet, Who Would Have Me Praise Certain Bad Poets, Imitators of His and Mine http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1724/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)

“Whence had they come,
The hand and lash that beat down frigid Rome?
What sacred drama through her body heaved
When world-transforming Charlemagne was conceived?”

Parnell's Funeral and Other Poems http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm (1935). Supernatural Songs http://worldebooklibrary.com/eBooks/WorldeBookLibrary.com/ytpafu.htm#1_0_7

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