W.B. Yeats: Quotes about heart

W.B. Yeats was Irish poet and playwright. Explore interesting quotes on heart.

W.B. Yeats: 510 quotes285 likes

“The only business of the head in the world is to bow a ceaseless obeisance to the heart.”

Letter to Frederick J. Gregg (undated, Sligo, late summer, 1886)

“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

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

“I had thought, seeing how bitter is that wind
That shakes the shutter, to have brought to mind
All those that manhood tried, or childhood loved
Or boyish intellect approved,
With some appropriate commentary on each;
Until imagination brought
A fitter welcome; but a thought
Of that late death took all my heart for speech.”

In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory, st. 12
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“Whatever flames upon the night
Man’s own resinous heart has fed.”

W.B. Yeats book The Tower

II, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Two Songs From a Play http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1741/

“Irish poets, earn your trade,
Sing whatever is well made,
Scorn the sort now growing up
All out of shape from toe to top,
Their unremembering hearts and heads
Base-born products of base beds.”

Under Ben Bulben http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1745/, V <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)

“Unwearied still, lover by lover,
They paddle in the cold
Companionable streams or climb the air;
Their hearts have not grown old.”

The Wild Swans At Coole, st. 4
The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“All things uncomely and broken, all things worn out and old,
The cry of a child by the roadway, the creak of a lumbering cart,
The heavy steps of the ploughman, splashing the wintry mould,
Are wronging your image that blossoms a rose in the deeps of my heart.”

The Lover Tells Of The Rose In His Heart http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1649/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)