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KellyWuli: Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.William Butler Yeats ~iherb
LucyLondon7: A fan of William Butler Yeats...In June 2016 Carol Blackmore the Parish Adminstrator at St. Mary's Church in Gillingham, Dorset was very helpful in my research of this poet, writer, actor and playwright.
Landen__: Those that I fight I do not hate, those that I guard I do not love. William Butler Yeats
skydog811: “There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet.”
― William Butler Yeats
skydog811: “It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield”
― William Butler Yeats
skydog811: “People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. ”
― William Butler Yeats
skydog811: “Ecstasy is from the contemplation of things vaster than the individual and imperfectly seen perhaps, by all those that still live.”
― William Butler Yeats
skydog811: “I think all happiness depends on the energy to assume the mask of some other life, on a re-birth as something not one's self.”
― William Butler Yeats
skydog811: “The blessed spirits must be sought within the self which is common to all ”
― William Butler Yeats
skydog811: For Fergus rules the brazen cars,
And rules the shadows of the wood,
And the white breast of the dim sea
And all dishevelled wandering stars.”
― William Butler Yeats, The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
IrishLitTimes: William Butler Yeats looking very dapper
VisibleGoldRN: “Come away, O human child!
To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping than you can understand.”
William Butler Yeats
Ida Rentoul Outhwaite - Fairy Islands, 1916.
KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats
DominicFrisby: For any poetry lovers out there
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
PhilAthans: The Old Men Admiring Themselves in the Water
by William Butler Yeats
VoteJamalKhan: “Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot. Make it hot by striking.” – William Butler Yeats
MaxColeArt: “Light Dancing upon Mountains”
“…come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the disheveled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.”
― William Butler Yeats
johnstonglenn: The Korean president quoted Yeats to Joe Biden in Seoul:
Mr. President, there’s a line...by William Butler Yeats, one of your favorite poets. It goes:
“Think where man’s glory most begins and ends,
And say my glory was I had such friends.”
Poem2Poem: I whispered, 'I am too young,' / And then, 'I am old enough'; - William Butler Yeats
PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens
Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909
Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889
inosuke282: Responsibilities, and other poems : Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
strates_fabbros: The Sorrow of LoveBY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS
Shi_bal__: Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.
William Butler Yeats
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goodnangja: Think where man's glory
most begins and ends,
and say my glory was
I had such friends… William Butler Yeats
SyedSai79405190: "Education is not filling a bucket, but lighting a fire." -William Butler Yeats
MUNAWAR ERA BEGINS
HossainNilofar: “I have spread my dreams under your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
― William Butler Yeats
© Inès Le Goff
GlobalAsianista: Postscript: President Biden smoothly sliding into third base at same State Dinner in Seoul with “wouldn’t happen in London” after President Yoon quoted William Butler Yeats
sirensong1208: Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats
Kevinliptakcnn: Reading the room: At a State Dinner in Seoul, President Yoon of South Korea quotes William Butler Yeats in his toast to President Biden: "Think where man's glory most begins and ends, and say my glory was I had such friends."
bentleyalumni: Mahendra Gujarathi — the recipient of Bentley’s 2021 Adamian Award for Lifetime Teaching Excellence — has drawn constant inspiration from the words of Irish poet William Butler Yeats: “Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire.”
aLilNightMusing: We had fed the heart on fantasies,
The heart’s grown brutal from the fare,
More substance in our enmities
Than in our love; oh, honey-bees
Come build in the empty house of the stare.
— William Butler Yeats, “The Stare’s Nest by My Window”
KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats
VergaraLautaro: QUOTE OF THE DAY
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold,
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world."
-- William Butler Yeats
glorialee252: The innocent and the beautiful have no enemy but time. - William Butler Yeats
homeschoolcnnct: "Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire." ~ William Butler Yeats
Regina_Kenney: Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
- William Butler Yeats
0starkafterdark: The Seelie and Unseelie Courts of Scottish folklore. The classification of trooping and solitary fairies proposed by William Butler Yeats (to which Katherine Briggs added domesticated faires). Heroic faires. Diminuitive faries
ronhenzel: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865-1939), “The Second Coming”
digikey: "Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire."
- William Butler Yeats
LinktoEXPERT: By logic & reason we die hourly. By imagination we live ~ William Butler Yeats
PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens
Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909
Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889
UnusualOTD: According to writer William Butler Yeats, "trooping" fairies wore green and solitary fairies (like the leprechaun) wore red. The cause of the modern day leprechaun wearing green is most likely because green was a traditional Irish color.
DonnieDavis23: Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. – William Butler Yeats
ShawnPLeary: “Many ingenious lovely things are gone
That seemed sheer miracle to the multitude,
protected from the circle of the moon”
-William Butler Yeats, Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen
CandyFrank8: Education is not the filling of a pail but the lighting of a fire. - William Butler Yeats
KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats
VanessaEboateng: Happenings in Nkoranza only shows man's inhumanity to man. Need me borrow from William Butler Yeats' "second Coming" Poem. ( The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world)
NawrozKhail: The fact that even we ourselves know that we would be fail for achieving the freedom but we will fight till the last breath. "Terrible Beauty" sacrifices in a week, but the nation uprise and get freedom for the Ireland.
Poem "Easter 1916" by William Butler Yeats. (Analysis)
OperaStrange: William Butler Yeats’ poem The Second Coming has been on my mind these last few days. It feels as representative of our current state as any news update.
iherb22Voucher5: Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking.William Butler Yeats ~iherb
PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens
Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909
Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889
Meri93019495: I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams. BY WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS. MERI.
NawrozKhail: Death is final "No, no, not night but death."
William Butler Yeats
B1akeGore: Faeries, come take me out of this dull world,
For I would ride with you upon the wind,
Run on the top of the dishevelled tide,
And dance upon the mountains like a flame.
- William Butler Yeats, The Land of Heart's Desire
piyanimmsi: Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.
The Second Coming / William Butler Yeats
Poem2Poem: I whispered, 'I am too young,' / And then, 'I am old enough'; - William Butler Yeats
lady_of_mercy: "Cast a cold eye
On life, on death.
Horseman, pass by!"
William Butler Yeats, 'Under Ben Bulben'
keithschnak: Go ahead baby let me see what you got
You know you got the biggest booty in this spot
And I just wanna see that thing drop
From the back to the front to the top
You know me, I'm off in the cut
Always like a squirrel, looking for a nut
-William Butler Yeats
RodyOBrienBL: “I will arise and go now, for always night and day
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore;
While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements grey,
I hear it in the deep heart’s core.”
William Butler Yeats
luciann8: “There are no strangers here;
Only friends you haven't yet met.”
William Butler Yeats
HossainNilofar: “There are no strangers here;
Only friends you haven't yet met.”
― William Butler Yeats
© Léonard Misonne
n_morse9927: LÉ William Butler Yeats(P63) made a 2-day port call in Vigo, Spain
numb3r5ev3n: Also I just found out that Ian Fleming based Le Chiffre on Alistair Crowley, and now I can picture Nigel pulling a William Butler Yeats if Le Chiffre so much as lays a finger on his Star.
DublinersThe: "And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings
There midnight’s all a glimmer, and noon a purple glow,
And evening full of the linnet’s wings."
William Butler Yeats
dellyha4: There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met.
- William Butler Yeats
carylloper: How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats
2_biia: Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
Hville_Standard: It was nearly 30 years after William Butler Yeats wrote, “The Coming of Wisdom with Time” that the impact of those words would echo in Charlie Sharp’s head.
KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats
tina4Iife: william butler yeats so boring pls i don’t care about him
BadkarReno: “Too long a Sacrifice can make a Stone of the heart.” William Butler Yeats
johnshaplin: William Butler Yeats,whose grandfather was a fearless old ship’s master and mother knitted and mended because she had to,was neither Nationalist nor Catholic nor liked the English.
AnneGlover_EU: This one, it speaks of longevity:
William Butler Yeats
JF3336: "It takes more courage to dig deep in the dark corners of your own soul and the back alleys of your society than it does for a soldier to fight on the battlefield."
~William Butler Yeats.
PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens
Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909
Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889
suzidao: This is a song about when William Butler Yeats kicked Aleister Crowley down the stairs in April of 1900. It slaps as hard as Yeats’ poetry and Crowley’s incompetence
BestQuote85: How far away the stars seem, and how far is our first kiss, and ah, how old my heart.
-William Butler Yeats
-Romantic
sanooj_repian: Education is not filling a pail but the lighting of a fire. William Butler Yeats
urakarla: The winds that awakened the stars
are blowing through my blood.
- William Butler Yeats
Inami_99: “I have spread my dreams beneath your feet;
Tread softly because you tread on my dreams.”
– William Butler Yeats
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eima_katalogoa: William Butler Yeats
KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats
everyTitleCincy: Critics On Yeats.—Cowell, Raymond.
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SaaymanBarry: The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats
"The best lack all conviction, whilst the worst are full of passionate intensity."
So true of current day South Africa.
(Hulle praat die grootste klomp nonsens dat die spoeg spat en hulle glo hulself...)
HubbardJeff: When one is
quiet, then something
wakes up inside one,
something happy and
quiet like the stars.
- William Butler Yeats
PDSongBot: Down By The Salley Gardens
Music: Herbert Hughes, 1909
Lyrics: William Butler Yeats, 1889
litcharts: New guide! Byzantium by William Butler Yeats
Poem2Poem: I whispered, 'I am too young,' / And then, 'I am old enough'; - William Butler Yeats
1_AutumnBreeze: “Come away, O human child! To the waters and the wild With a faery, hand in hand, For the world’s more full of weeping than you can understand.”
- William Butler Yeats
Marion206: William Butler Yeats " The Second Coming" "The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."
orgdimension: “The world is full of magic things patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” — credited to the Irish poet William Butler Yeats
DublinersThe: "The star-crossed memory of you,
Against a door I'd not pass through."
William Butler Yeats
KepooGaul: "Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking." William Butler Yeats
hanging_moon: the white birds - william butler yeats
ledrew: Rose of all Roses, Rose of all the World! You, too, have come where the dim tides are hurled. Upon the wharves of sorrow, and heard ring The bell that calls us on; the sweet far thing. ~ William Butler Yeats
davidcomdico: The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
- William Butler Yeats
Bernie0y47m: “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” – William Butler Yeats
YongKim62961403: “I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made;”
(중략)
“And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow,
(생략)
‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’
by William Butler Yeats
Innisfree에서 평화롭고 free하세요.
daxlucas: “The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.”
That’s William Butler Yeats’ ‘The Second Coming’ written just after World War 1.
