W.B. Yeats: Quotes about the world

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W.B. Yeats: 510 quotes285 likes

“Some burn damp faggots, others may consume
The entire combustible world in one small room
As though dried straw, and if we turn about
The bare chimney is gone black out
Because the work had finished in that flare.
Soldier, scholar, horseman, he,
As ’twere all life’s epitome.
What made us dream that he could comb grey hair?”

In Memory Of Major Robert Gregory http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1516/, st. 11 <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)

“I would mould a world of fire and dew
With no one bitter, grave, or over wise,
And nothing marred or old to do you wrong.”

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

The Land of Heart's Desire (1894)

“The woods of Arcady are dead,
And over is their antique joy;
Of old the world on dreaming fed;
Grey Truth is now her painted toy;
Yet still she turns her restless head.”

Source: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 1–5.