William Butler Yeats frasi celebri
But I being poor, have only my dreams, I have spread my dreams under your feet, tread softly because you tread on my dreams.
Origine: Da He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven; citato in Equilibrium.
libro Fiabe Irlandesi
“Correggendo le mie opere, correggo me stesso.”
Origine: Citato in Marguerite Yourcenar, Taccuini di appunti, in Memorie di Adriano, traduzione di Lidia Storoni Mazzolani, Giulio Einaudi editore, Torino, 1988, p. 299. ISBN 88-06-60011-7
William Butler Yeats Frasi e Citazioni
Incipit di alcune opere, Fiabe irlandesi, The Fairies (I folletti)
“Se guardi nel buio a lungo, c'è sempre qualcosa.”
Origine: Citato in Luca Goldoni, Vita da bestie, ed. BUR, 2001.
Origine: Da Autobiografia; citato in Thomas R. Nevin, Simone Weil: Ritratto di un'ebrea che si volle esiliare, traduzione di Giulia Boringhieri, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1997, p. 420. ISBN 88-339-1056-3
vv. 27 – 33
Incipit di alcune opere, Under Ben Bulben (Sotto il Ben Bulben)
“Molte volte l'uomo vive e muore fra le sue due eternità.”
Incipit di alcune opere, Under Ben Bulben (Sotto il Ben Bulben)
Incipit di alcune opere, Under Ben Bulben (Sotto il Ben Bulben)
William Butler Yeats: Frasi in inglese
W.B. Yeats libro The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Choice http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1602/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
The Lake Isle of Innisfree http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1641/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Rose (1893) <br class="br">Contesto: I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,<br>And a small cabin build there, of clay and wattles made:<br>Nine bean-rows will I have there, a hive for the honeybee,<br>And live alone in the bee-loud glade.<br>And I shall have some peace there, for peace comes dropping slow<br>Dropping from the veils of the morning to where the cricket sings;
W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 3 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), A Prayer For My Daughter http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1421/
W.B. Yeats libro The Tower
I, st. 4 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
W.B. Yeats libro The Tower
St. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Sailing to Byzantium http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1575/
Speech (3 March 1926), Seanad Éireann (Irish Free Senate), on the Coinage Bill. http://historical-debates.oireachtas.ie/S/0006/S.0006.192603030003.html
“O when may it suffice?
That is heaven's part, our part
To murmur name upon name.”
W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
W.B. Yeats libro The Tower
V, st. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
St. 1 <br class="br">In The Seven Woods (1904), Adam's Curse http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1431/
“Pardon, old fathers, if you still remain
Somewhere in ear-shot for the story’s end.”
Responsibilities - Introduction http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1572/ <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914)
W.B. Yeats libro The Tower
V, st. 2 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
The Wild Swans At Coole http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1712/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Wild Swans at Coole (1919)
W.B. Yeats libro The Winding Stair and Other Poems
The Seven Sages http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1685/ <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
“All perform their tragic play,
There struts Hamlet, there is Lear,
That’s Ophelia, that Cordelia.”
Lapis Lazuli http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1522/, st. 2 <br class="br">Last Poems (1936-1939)
W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 3 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
W.B. Yeats libro The Winding Stair and Other Poems
Lullaby http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1527/, st. 1 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
The Countess Cathleen http://www.letras.ufrj.br/veralima/6_referencias/63_e_texts_2005/yeats/countess_cathleen/yeats_countess_cathleen_2005.htm, last lines (1892)
“Only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your yellow hair.”
W.B. Yeats libro The Winding Stair and Other Poems
For Anne Gregory http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1483/, st. 3 <br class="br">The Winding Stair and Other Poems (1933)
W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 2 <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/
No Second Troy http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1548/ <br class="br">The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
W.B. Yeats libro The Tower
V, st. 4 <br class="br">The Tower (1928), Nineteen Hundred And Nineteen http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1547/
W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer
St. 4. <br class="br">Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921), Easter, 1916 http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1477/ <br class="br">Contesto: I write it out in a verse—<br>MacDonagh and MacBride<br>And Connolly and Pearse<br>Now and in time to be,<br>Wherever green is worn,<br>Are changed, changed utterly:<br>A terrible beauty is born.
“Under bare Ben Bulben’s head
In Drumcliff churchyard Yeats is laid.”
Under Ben Bulben, VI
Last Poems (1936-1939)
W.B. Yeats libro The Tower
Leda and the Swan http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1523/, st. 3 <br class="br">The Tower (1928)
“They say such different things at school.”
W.B. Yeats libro Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer
Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921)
“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)
The Magi http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1652/ <br class="br">Responsibilities (1914)
