William Butler Yeats
William Butler Yeats (1865 - 1939), popularly known as W B Yeats in short, was an Irish poet, writer, and dramatist. He was one of the foremost literary figures of 20th-century literature, and a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival. He also served two terms as a Senator of the Irish Free State.Wisdom & Quotes
- Things fall apart; the center cannot hold;
- The Second Coming
- And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
- The Second Coming
- The best lack all conviction, while the worst
- The Second Coming
- All changed, changed utterly:
- Easter 1916
- Too long a sacrifice
- Easter 1916
- The wind blows out of the gates of the day,
And the lonely of heart is withered away.
- The Land of Heart's Desire
- Now that y ladder's gone,
In the foul rag-and-bone shop of the heart.
- The Circus Animals' Desertion
- I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,
And live alone in the bee-loud glade.
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
- Romantic Ireland's dead and gone,
- Responsibilities, preliminary poem
- A pity beyond all telling
- The Pity of Love
- When you are old and gray and full of sleep
And slowly read.
- When You Are Old
- How many loved your moments of glad grace,
But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you,
And loved the sorrows of your changing face.
- When You Are Old
- And pluck till time and times are done
The golden apples of the sun.
- The Song of the Wandering Aengus
- When shall the stars be blown about the sky,
- The Secret Rose
- The years like great black oxen tread the world,
And I am broken by their passing feet.
- The Countess Cathleen
Herbert George Wells