W.B. Yeats

Seamus Heaney quote about W.B. Yeats

“W.B. Yeats’ poetry masterfully intertwines personal emotion, Irish nationalism and mythological symbolism, creating a body of work that resonates deeply across time and culture.”

An Irish Airman foresees his death

Quote about delight

“A lonely impulse of delight/ Drove to this tumult in the clouds.”

love vs hate An Irish Airman foresees his death

“Those that I fight I do not hate/ Those that I guard I do not love.”

quote about balancing An Irish airman foresees his death

“I balanced all, brought all to mind”

An Irish airman foresees his death quote about fate

“I know that I shall meet my fate/ Somewhere among the clouds above.”

First line from the wild swans at Coole

“The trees are in their autumn beauty, the woodland paths are dry”

The Wild Swans at Coole final quote

Among what rushes will they build, / By what lake’s edge or pool / Delight men's eyes when I awake some day / To find they have flown away?

Yeats quote about the swans

“Their hearts have not grown old; Passion or conquest, wander where they will, / Attend upon them still.”

Opening line in “Sailing to Byzantium”

“That is no country for old men.”

Scarecrow quote

“An aged man is but a paltry thing/ a tattered coat upon a stick.”

Grecian’s goldsmith quote

“Once out of nature I shall never take/ My bodily form from any natural thing/ But such a form as Grecian goldsmiths make.”

Oxymoron, Repetition, Symbolism, Tone

“All changed, changed utterly: A terrible beauty is born.”

Great metaphor in “Easter 1916”

“Too long a sacrifice can make a stone of the heart.”

What refrain is used throughout September 1913

“Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone, it’s with O’Leary in the grave.”

“They weighed so lightly what they gave,
But let them be, they’re dead and gone.”

the greedy middle class quote

“But fumble in a greasy till.”

balancing quote

“The years ahead seem waste of breath,

a waste of breath the years behind,

in balance with this life, this death.”