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W.B. Yeats Citations
W.B. Yeats: Citations en anglais
“In dreams begins responsibility.”
Variante: In Dreams begins Responsibility.
Source: Epigraph to the book Responsibilities (1914); this was later adapted as the title of the story "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities" (1937) by Delmore Schwartz.
When You Are Old http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1756/, st. 1–3 <br class="br">The Rose (1893) <br class="br">Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats <br class="br">Contexte: p>When you are old and gray and full of sleep,<br>And nodding by the fire, take down this book,<br>And slowly read, and dream of the soft look<br>Your eyes had once, and of their shadows deep;How many loved your moments of glad grace,<br>And loved your beauty with love false or true,<br>But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,<br>And loved the sorrows of your changing face.And bending down beside the glowing bars,<br>Murmur, a little sadly, how Love fled<br>And paced upon the mountains overhead<br>And hid his face amid a crowd of stars.</p
“Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.”
Variante: Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
“I bring you with reverent hands
The books of my numberless dreams.”
Source: The Wind Among the Reeds
An Irish Airman Forsees His Death http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1441/ <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) <br class="br">Contexte: I know that I shall meet my fate<br>Somewhere among the clouds above;<br>Those that I fight I do not hate,<br>Those that I guard I do not love;<br>My county is Kiltartan Cross,<br>My countrymen Kiltartan’s poor,<br>No likely end could bring them loss<br>Or leave them happier than before.<br>Nor law, nor duty bade me fight,<br>Nor public men, nor cheering crowds,<br>A lonely impulse of delight<br>Drove to this tumult in the clouds;<br>I balanced all, brought all to mind,<br>The years to come seemed waste of breath,<br>A waste of breath the years behind<br>In balance with this life, this death.
St. 5 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/ <br class="br">Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats <br class="br">Contexte: In courtesy I’d have her chiefly learned;<br>Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned<br>By those that are not entirely beautiful;<br>Yet many, that have played the fool<br>For beauty’s very self, has charm made wise.<br>And many a poor man that has roved,<br>Loved and thought himself beloved,<br>From a glad kindness cannot take his eyes.
“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
"Earth, Fire and Water" from The Celtic Twilight (1893)
Source: The Celtic Twilight: Faerie and Folklore
Source: The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
