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William Butler Yeats , est un poète et dramaturge irlandais, né le 13 juin 1865 à Sandymount et mort le 28 janvier 1939 à Roquebrune Cap Martin,, en France. Fils du peintre John Butler Yeats, il est l'un des instigateurs du renouveau de la littérature irlandaise et cofondateur, avec Lady Gregory, de l'Abbey Theatre. Il a reçu le prix Nobel de littérature en 1923.

Ses premières œuvres aspiraient à une richesse romantique, ce que retrace son recueil publié en 1893 Crépuscule celtique, mais la quarantaine venant, inspiré par sa relation avec les poètes modernistes comme Ezra Pound et en lien avec son implication dans le nationalisme irlandais, il évolua vers un style moderne sans concession. Yeats fut aussi un sénateur de l'État libre d'Irlande pendant deux mandats.

✵ 13. juin 1865 – 28. janvier 1939
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W.B. Yeats Citations

“Lui qui aurait voulu pouvoir offrir le ciel

Si je pouvais t'offrir le bleu secret du ciel
Brodé de lumière d'or et de reflets d'argents
Le mystérieux secret, le secret éternel
De la nuit et du jour, de la vie et du temps

Avec tout mon amour je le mettrais à tes pieds
Mais tu sais je suis pauvre et je n'ai que mes rêves
Alors c'est de mes rêves qu'il faut te contenter
Marche doucement, car tu marches sur mes rêves”

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W.B. Yeats: Citations en anglais

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

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

“Was it for this the wild geese spread
The grey wing upon every tide;
For this that all that blood was shed,
For this Edward Fitzgerald died,
And Robert Emmet and Wolfe Tone,
All that delirium of the brave?
Romantic Ireland’s dead and gone,
It’s with O’Leary in the grave.”

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September 1913 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1576/, st. 3 <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914)

“Imagining in excited reverie
That the future years had come,
Dancing to a frenzied drum,
Out of the murderous innocence of the sea.”

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W.B. Yeats livre Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 2 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/

“When I play on my fiddle in Dooney,
Folk dance like a wave of the sea.”

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The Fiddler Of Dooney http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1620/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Wind Among the Reeds (1899)

“The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves,
The brilliant moon and all the milky sky,
And all that famous harmony of leaves,
Had blotted out man’s image and his cry.”

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The Sorrow Of Love http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1691/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Rose (1893)

“I pray — for word is out
And prayer comes round again —
That I may seem, though I die old,
A foolish, passionate man.”

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A Prayer For Old Age, st. 3.
A Full Moon in March (1935)

“Words alone are certain good.”

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Source: Crossways (1889), The Song Of The Happy Shepherd, l. 10.

“I am content to follow to its source
Every event in action or in thought;
Measure the lot; forgive myself the lot!
When such as I cast out remorse
So great a sweetness flows into the breast
We must laugh and we must sing,
We are blest by everything,
Everything we look upon is blest.”

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W.B. Yeats livre The Winding Stair and Other Poems

II, st. 4 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), A Dialogue of Self and Soul http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1397/

“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.”

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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)

“All women dote upon an idle man
Although their children need a rich estate.
No man has ever lived that had enough
Of children’s gratitude or woman’s love.”

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W.B. Yeats livre The Winding Stair and Other Poems

III, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/

“Test every work of intellect or faith,
And everything that your own hands have wrought
And call those works extravagance of breath
That are not suited for such men as come
Proud, open-eyed and laughing to the tomb.”

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W.B. Yeats livre The Winding Stair and Other Poems

III, st. 2 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933), Vacillation http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1751/

“All changed, changed utterly:
A terrible beauty is born.”

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W.B. Yeats livre Michael Robartes and the Dancer

St. 1 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/

“Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses. Poets are the policemen of language; they are always arresting those old reprobates the words.”

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Letter to Ellen O'Leary (3 February 1889)

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