Who is William Butler Yeats

William Butler Yeats (13 June 1865 – 28 January 1939) was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival and became a pillar of the Irish literary establishment who helped to found the Abbey Theatre. In his later years he served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.

A Protestant of Anglo-Irish descent, Yeats was born in Sandymount and was educated in Dublin and London and spent childhood holidays in County Sligo. He studied poetry from an early age, when he became fascinated by Irish legends and the occult. These topics feature in the first phase of his work, lasting roughly from his student days at the Metropolitan School of Art in Dublin until the turn of the 20th c...
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William Butler Yeats Poems

• What Magic Drum?
  He holds him from desire, all but stops his breathing
  lest
  primordial Motherhood forsake his limbs, the child no
  longer rest, ...
• Conjunctions
  If Jupiter and Saturn meet,
  What a cop of mummy wheat!
  The sword's a cross; thereon He died:
  On breast of Mars the goddess sighed....
• The Four Ages Of Man
  He with body waged a fight,
  But body won; it walks upright.
  Then he struggled with the heart;
  Innocence and peace depart. ...
• Ribb Considers Christian Love Insufficient
  Why should I seek for love or study it?
  It is of God and passes human wit.
  I study hatred with great diligence,
  For that's a passion in my own control, ...
• On Those That Hated "the Playboy Of The Western World"
  Once, when midnight smote the air,
  Eunuchs ran through Hell and met
  On every crowded street to stare
  Upon great Juan riding by: ...

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William Butler Yeats Quotes

• Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire.
• Things fall apart the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.
• Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
• We taste and feel and see the truth. We do not reason outselves into it.
• And say my glory was I had such friends.

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• Roeckmax: think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was i had such friends. - william butler yeats

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